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Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

Steffen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:48:13 -0000

Know how is all. Nothing is impossible. I will try this here in Germany ;)

Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

dansumption — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:22:17 -0000

Haha, you guessed it Yoshi. I always have to have a hand free for my bottle of beer!

Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

Yoshi — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:15:34 -0000

M M M----you still need to strech your hand, and aim the flash, ------ its mean,
is this for you to keep your glass in your hand ?

Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

lee_taylor@att.net — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:38:12 -0000

Now that you've got a free hand - what are you going to do with it?
Just curious - george...
Lee

Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

dansumption — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:45:42 -0000

@sam: with that flash, it's not possible (fixed head), but I later did something similar to what you suggest:
http://www.sumption.org/200...

Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

sam — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:26:49 -0000

why don't you try wearing a white glove on the hand, and have the flash point parallel with your arm, into your hand. Then you could customize the light spread with your hand.

Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

Rolograaf — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:16:10 -0000

Dan, good idea.

I have cable which is not so long, have to test if that works.

Also I heard people boucing of the inside of their hand, so you could turn the flashhead upwards (use the ceiling for the rest of the bounce).

Thanks also for your flickr comment http://www.flickr.com/group..., as said, we seem to think alike, but it's good you'r blogging about it, gives me new ideas.

Cheers
Lawrence