radio popper testing | video light…
posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 in Photographers Matt Adcock
Our apologies for the sloooow posting. We have stepped into our high season and just to give a little breakdown on what is happening, consider this:
Production status: In May, del Sol has 22 weddings, 10 TTD sessions and an engagement and 1 rehearsal dinner. We are shooting more days than there are days in the month, crazy eh? We have a team of 4 shooters, myself, my wife Sol, my Atlanta associate Melissa and our Mexico associate Vincent. If my FF posts lag or dont show up, its because my head is spinning circles around some production. We made it through April which was just the
ISO 400 1/400 High speed sync, f3.2 Canon 24-70 @ 24mm.
This was publicity shot made for the Event Director and Sales Director at our favorite hotel in the Riveira Maya, Esencia.
ISO 50 1/1000 f3.2 Canon 70-200 @100mm. Poppper performing at some distance, 40 feet or so, out in the wide open.
and a little higher speed sync: 1/4000 4.5 ISO 50 Playing with a little underexposure here.
Who said you can't shoot a table shot at 1.4? ISO 1250 1/100 1.4 35mm
and after looking at this shot, i'm loving canon at 1250 ISO and sexyglass.
Who said you can't handhold the 85mm 1.2 at 1/50th of a second? shot at 1/50th 1.4 ISO 1250. Video light from camera right.
Ok, hope to be posting something soon, looking for an offer of a killer submission for flashflavor. Anybody know anybody? See a photo on a blog recently that sparked your artistic imagination? Please tell me about them in the comments, por favor!
Cheers,
matt
I wanted to include a few images shot by Sol or myself, using the trusty radio poppers. We use the RP's conservatively and here are just a few locations that they really stepped it up. I have mixed feelings about TTL right now that I'm trying to improve on. For me, it works and sometime, understanding TTL doesn't work out. I've trained my mind to see Manual Flash to the point where I begin to have a learning curve to care about TTL. But, its a growing experience that has had some fun experimenting with some nice Prime Glass. I've got a few images from what I call Sexy Glass. Anything under 2.0 and in the 1. something neighborhood fast lenses are just outrageous.
ISO 400 1/400 High speed sync, f3.2 Canon 24-70 @ 24mm.
This was publicity shot made for the Event Director and Sales Director at our favorite hotel in the Riveira Maya, Esencia.
ISO 50 1/1000 f3.2 Canon 70-200 @100mm. Poppper performing at some distance, 40 feet or so, out in the wide open.
and a little higher speed sync: 1/4000 4.5 ISO 50 Playing with a little underexposure here.
Using a SONY Video light mentioned in this post, with my trusty 50 1.2 or 85 1.2 or 35 1.4. More to come from the sexy glass. Previously seen Bat cave TTD Video light movie. This will give you an idea of how close we get with the video light.
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video light used in ttd session |
Who said you can't shoot a table shot at 1.4? ISO 1250 1/100 1.4 35mm
and after looking at this shot, i'm loving canon at 1250 ISO and sexyglass.
Who said you can't handhold the 85mm 1.2 at 1/50th of a second? shot at 1/50th 1.4 ISO 1250. Video light from camera right.
Ok, hope to be posting something soon, looking for an offer of a killer submission for flashflavor. Anybody know anybody? See a photo on a blog recently that sparked your artistic imagination? Please tell me about them in the comments, por favor!
Cheers,
matt
9 comments for "radio popper testing | video light testing"
Hi, I have a question: how do you get your camera to sync at such insane speeds? The Canon 5D doesn't have the CCD electronic shutter of the cheaper Nikon models (D40, D50, D70). The only thing I can think of is making your flash fire multiple times within the e.g. 1/4000s period. Is that right? Thanks
Love your blog
Cheers for sharing the TTD videos guys. What an inspiration, although we don't have too many lush jungles in the UK!
Still trying to find my first bride who's game enough for a TTD shoot..
Steve
Hey Matt.
I just shot a wedding with some chances to fire off some flashes off camera during the reception. It was buckets of fun.
For the rest of the day tho, my assistant was holding onto a small softbox with a strobe on a stick.
All of thesse shots were fired with pocketwizards.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100thousandquestions/sets/72157604869909402/
I know you have already talked about this before. But do you should Raw during your low light situations such as the cave TTD's or perhaps with the reception images above? I'm just wondering if the noise level is lower at 1250 with Raw vs JPEG. What do you do? Thanks Matt
Wow this was definately the post I was looking for! all kind of info here. Thanks Bud
i just posted details about a cool modification allowing you to mount the radiopopper p1 on a pop-up flash using gary fong's puffer.
read all the details and see photos here:
http://www.kern-photo.com/blog/files/mounting_a_radiopopper_on_a_puffer.php
and a review with photos here:
http://www.kern-photo.com/blog/files/radiopopper_review.php
happy poppin'!
r. j.
Love that first shot! I can't get my eyes off of it. :)
yeah, its like hold your breath and hope something happens to be in focus... although I've gone as low as 1/30th on my 70-200 with the image stabilizer kicking in.
I agree with you on shooting slower than your focal length. I was handholding my 70-200mm around 100mm at 1/60th. You just have to stay away from the caffeine jitters. =)