redpepper wrote:
Thanks Rick ..... I wonder if there is an umbrella that can be an all-in-one type so I don't need to purchase separate shoot thru and reflective ones.
Yes, they are called convertible umbrellas.
An example of one can be seen
at this link from B&H and the
Westcott line can be seen here .
The
Strobist website (highly recommended) has an article devoted to the Westcott Convertible double-fold umbrella (very compact)
HERE.
I recently got a
Neewer Softbox for location work and absolutely love it!
The
flash adapter works so well I got a second one.
Works with the accessories I use with my Bowens monolights which pretty much stay in the studio now.
Joe McNally is a great educator in the use of off camera flash.
He has several videos
HERE.
I attended a seminar of his a couple of years ago.
It was fantastic.
You should look for his
books (I have several of them).
Neil van Niekerk's website
LINK HERE is also very informative.
Definitely worth a few hours of perusing!
You should know this by now, but as a suggestion, OCF is not a very good topic title.
If you had used "Off Camera Flash" as a title, it would have taken this thread into several pages by now.
There are quite a few members here who use off camera flash and may not be chiming in because they think this may be about some medical condition (OCD, ADHDD, HDADD... :lol: )
The search engine here uses the topic titles to find subjects.
They should be concise, but descriptive.
Cheers!