Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Strobist shoot with Pixel Knight TR-322 wireless triggers

 Av f3.2 | Tv 1/100 | ISO 100 

It's hard enough to find a willing model - let alone a backdrop like this. So when the opportunity presents itself you need to be ready and it certainly helps to have everything set up before you head out. 

I bought the Pixel Knight TR-322 set a few weeks earlier and this was the 1st shoot "in the field" :)

Following the general strobist rules for balancing flash and ambient light, I set my camera to manual and exposed for the sky. There wasn't much time, so I cheated a bit and set the triggers and flash to TTL mode - one less thing to worry about.

Av f8 | Tv 1/80 | ISO 400

 Here's the 1st shot. 

Not bad. I was happy with the exposure but there was too much of the background in focus so I dropped the aperture to f3.2. 


I noticed the ISO was on 400 so I dropped it to 100 to get the best image quality; the ambient light had changed as well and with all the adjustments I ended up on a shutter speed of 1/100. 

AV f3.2 | Tv 1/100 | ISO 100

 In the next shot below it was all coming together. 

"Be more serious...turn your face more to the camera...hold it there...don't move..." 
...and SNAP!

          


I processed the RAW image in Canon Digital Photo Professional adding a bit of sharpness and dropping the saturation.

I'm loving these triggers :)


 [One last thing - get that flash in nice and close; 
in this pic it's just outside of the frame on the right]



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