Posts for: arathorn357
Apr 26, 2019 17:34:38 #
I am also new to using speedlights and my local camera shop recommended a radio controlled unit specific to my camera type - light is a Nissin Di700A with an Air Commander controller which goes into the hot shoe of the camera, leaving you free to place the light anywhere and pointing in any direction you choose.
Here is a shot using just that one speedlight - not a particularly great shot, but I was pleased that I got the adjustable power settings such that it illuminated the dark triangular rafters as natural light would - with the radio controller on the camera it makes adjusting power on the speedlight a snap.
The test of using flash well, is that the image ends up looks naturally lit. Liked my first Nissin so much have just bought a second! Not as high powered as the Godox pro units, but easy to learn and control.
Here is a shot using just that one speedlight - not a particularly great shot, but I was pleased that I got the adjustable power settings such that it illuminated the dark triangular rafters as natural light would - with the radio controller on the camera it makes adjusting power on the speedlight a snap.
The test of using flash well, is that the image ends up looks naturally lit. Liked my first Nissin so much have just bought a second! Not as high powered as the Godox pro units, but easy to learn and control.
Apr 22, 2019 16:52:50 #
(Panorama)
Hi my name is Andrew and I'm new here (and coming back into digital photography after a time long ago with lots of film long ago).
Just wondering if you would like a beginners guide to creating a panorama written and posted? Forgive me if this already exists here, and I missed it.
I just spent 2 days teaching myself how to do it, setting up, taking the images, stitching and then working out how to animate or make a movie from the still shot to best display the result. I am going to summarise all that I learnt for myself anyway, but I wonder if there might be a wider audience?
Having the skill to make a controlled pano strikes me as really useful when we have a big but interesting subject that just cannot be captured in one shot with the limited field of view most lenses have - its our mission as photographers to see and then tell the story - and sometimes you just need a whole lot of frames together to do that.
The guide would probably be a pdf doc, with some images. I think I should invite suggestions for improvement of the guide over time from the crowd here.
But the key to this is to save time for those who do not yet have the skill, to learn just the basics to get them started.
Would that be a good thing to prepare and post? best, Andrew
ps one limitation might be I only have a mac and its compatible software - I left the PC world some years ago and the guide might be a bit limited for that reason.
Just wondering if you would like a beginners guide to creating a panorama written and posted? Forgive me if this already exists here, and I missed it.
I just spent 2 days teaching myself how to do it, setting up, taking the images, stitching and then working out how to animate or make a movie from the still shot to best display the result. I am going to summarise all that I learnt for myself anyway, but I wonder if there might be a wider audience?
Having the skill to make a controlled pano strikes me as really useful when we have a big but interesting subject that just cannot be captured in one shot with the limited field of view most lenses have - its our mission as photographers to see and then tell the story - and sometimes you just need a whole lot of frames together to do that.
The guide would probably be a pdf doc, with some images. I think I should invite suggestions for improvement of the guide over time from the crowd here.
But the key to this is to save time for those who do not yet have the skill, to learn just the basics to get them started.
Would that be a good thing to prepare and post? best, Andrew
ps one limitation might be I only have a mac and its compatible software - I left the PC world some years ago and the guide might be a bit limited for that reason.