More experiments with portable lighting




In my quest for portable studio quality lighting, I continue to make frankenlighting rigs, mating bits and pieces that were not meant to be together. This is much like what they're doing with all the poodle variants; Cockapoo anyone? Ugly, but functional, my portable ceiling still fits in a backpack but now takes too much time to set up. I do like the results I'm getting though, here's some shots I grabbed during soundcheck. No post production on these except some minor sharpening. I really like the quality of the light and the ability to control where it goes, my previous set up would have spilled light all over the place. I was getting frustrated with the canon IR triggering system so I took a chance on some cheap chinese-made wireless flash triggers from ebay and while they are cheaply made and interfere with my home security system, they get the job done without requiring line of sight like the $200 canon system. Best of all I can use my nikon flashes in full manual mode again. Total cost on the chinese transmitters was about $40. Perhaps some day I will achieve the ideal design and perfect the pointable portable ceiling, as elegant a union as a reese's peanut butter cup. I leave you with this quote from Andrew of Georgetown masters on the reese's peanut butter cup:

It's peanut butter, in a cup........ but....... the cup is made of chocolate.


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Posted: Mon - September 11, 2006 at 02:18 AM          

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