Flash Lamps: Zachery Jensen used his D800, Sigma 35mm, and three Yongnou flashes in a clever way to light a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. He set the flashes up on the table with...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Zachery Jensen used his D800, Sigma 35mm, and three Yongnou flashes in a clever way to light a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. He set the flashes up on the table with little lampshades. Although the article doesn't say, he obviously fired them wirelessly, for a very nice effect.

http://www.petapixel.com/2013/03/24/using-incognito-flash-lamps-to-illuminate-partygoers-at-a-table/

Happyclicker Loc: West Mids, UK

Yeah....cool idea with the lampshades on the flash units

jimberton Loc: Michigan's Upper Peninsula

that is a really great idea. I have a half dozen of the 560 yongnuos, (and a half dozen of the cactus v5 triggers) never thought of this. and the shads act as soft light diffusers!! what a great idea.

thanks for the post.

GrahamS Loc: Hertfordshire, U.K

Thanks Jerry. That's "thinking out of the box..."

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

that's what I did here.

GrahamS Loc: Hertfordshire, U.K

Great shot. Bravo! The lighting is superb.

eye2eye Loc: Chicago, Illinois

Great idea, but doesn't look like a fun and great party! lol

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

by the way...

If you'd have gelled your flash heads with CTO, and put your WB on "tungsten" then the flash light color would have blended in with the ambient lamps in the background (see my shot above)

Trippmeister Loc: Los Gatos, CA

rpavich wrote:

that's what I did here.

Amazing, looks so non-flash!

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Trippmeister wrote:

Amazing, looks so non-flash!

Lol...thanks! That was the idea.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

rpavich wrote:

that's what I did here.

Can you explain what you did?

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

jerryc41 wrote:

Can you explain what you did?

Sure, If I remember :)

I put a speedlight in the lamp, gelled it with a CTO gel to get the color temperature warm and to match the ambient light.

I set the camera for a proper exposure using the speedlight, and then I slowed down the shutter speed to add ambient light into the scene; as ambient is controlled by the shutter but flash isn't affected.

After doing all that, I found that I liked the "pool of light" effect more and raised the shutter back up to 1/200 ISO 400 to eliminate the ambient light almost all together.

I got the idea from David Hobby, aka "The Strobist". He had an article about substituting speedlights for lamps but making them look like they were actually lamps.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

rpavich wrote:

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That's amazing. It doesn't look like a flash at all.

Doing a search for CTO gel, got me this. Interesting story about his previous free sample giveaway.

http://www.amazon.com/Rosco-Strobist-Collection-1-5x3-25-Strobes/dp/B002SWIOOM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364386482&sr=8-2&keywords=rosco+cto+gel

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

jerryc41 wrote:

That's amazing. It doesn't look like a flash at all.

Doing a search for CTO gel, got me this. Interesting story about his previous free sample giveaway.

http://www.amazon.com/Rosco-Strobist-Collection-1-5x3-25-Strobes/dp/B002SWIOOM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364386482&sr=8-2&keywords=rosco+cto+gel

That's pretty good for those gels...free shipping too.

I usually buy the Rosco sample pack for about 6.00 or so...then throw most of them away.

The strobist site ( www.strobist.blogspot.com) is a great site...he worked for the Baltimore sun as a photographer for many years and he blogged about most of his assignments and how he "got 'er done"...very instructive to see how a pro handles different lighting situations under pressure.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

rpavich wrote:

That's pretty good for those gels...free shipping too.

I usually buy the Rosco sample pack for about 6.00 or so...then throw most of them away.

The strobist site ( www.strobist.blogspot.com) is a great site...he worked for the Baltimore sun as a photographer for many years and he blogged about most of his assignments and how he "got 'er done"...very instructive to see how a pro handles different lighting situations under pressure.

Yes, the Strobist site is very good.

The Rosco Sample Pack used to be free. He would send small samples out to professionals in the industry. Then the DSLR crowd found out that those samples were a good fit on speelights, and they began requesting them by the thousands.

The price certainly seems good for those gels, but I doubt that I would use them enough to justify buying them. I'm trying something new. It's called "self-control."