Street Walking Challenge in China
Jul 22, 2012 16:28:44 #
I really enjoy watching video like this. It is another entertaining but interesting "cheap camera challenge" from DigitalRev.
It combines a really cheap Kodak P&S with a Nikon Speedlight and challenges a professional photographer from the US to get some good portrait shots in China.
The photographer does not know a single word of the local challenge. But his people skills still come through.
It is interesting to watch this professional at work and how he is able to overcome what might be an impossible task for many of us using mismatched equipment in a setting where he cannot speak the language.
Pretty impressive results at the end all considered.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zh6zr3wKRV0
It combines a really cheap Kodak P&S with a Nikon Speedlight and challenges a professional photographer from the US to get some good portrait shots in China.
The photographer does not know a single word of the local challenge. But his people skills still come through.
It is interesting to watch this professional at work and how he is able to overcome what might be an impossible task for many of us using mismatched equipment in a setting where he cannot speak the language.
Pretty impressive results at the end all considered.
Cut and past the link below into your web browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zh6zr3wKRV0
Jul 23, 2012 17:49:01 #
I am impressed. See, it's what's 6" behind the camera, not the camera that takes good images.
Jul 23, 2012 23:38:52 #
Most of the shots were fantastic in terms of the portrait and lighting, a few were more like flash-on-the-point-and-shoot-camera type of shots. What I want to know is how did he synchronise the untethered flash unit to the camera? The flash output of the camera triggering the flash unit?
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link.
Jul 24, 2012 00:22:53 #
Chinaman wrote:
Most of the shots were fantastic in terms of the portrait and lighting, a few were more like flash-on-the-point-and-shoot-camera type of shots. What I want to know is how did he synchronise the untethered flash unit to the camera? The flash output of the camera triggering the flash unit?
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link.
I wondered the same thing.
I believe that he used the P&S flash to slave the Speedlight and set the Speedlight on a manual setting anfter some trial and error on exposure.
That is why he had to get into a dark area - the P&S did not have a forced fill-in flash option and would not fire unless it was dark.
He seemed to get all that figured out in less than a minute.
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