Comments on: Strobe and Ambient: Finding the Mix for Portraiture

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:51:36 +0000

Radio Poppers will work with studio strobes, they work with alien bees, whitelighting and zues strobes and cannon and nikon flash with remote power adjustments with the radio poppers JRX studio kit, the Radio Poppers RP cube is required for remote power adjustment with cannon and nikon flash set ups.

http://www.radiopopper.com

By: wizwow

wizwow — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:11:54 +0000

They were not restored after the recent site attack. I am making sure they will be up at the end of the day. Sorry about the confusion.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:20:54 +0000

The link to the PDF is broken – could you please fix this? I really love saving this guides for review later!
http://www.lighting-essentials.com/strobe-ambient-tutorial.pdf

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By: thor

thor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:11:39 +0000

Thanks for pointing me to this post Don! It helped a ton! You rock!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:56:19 +0000

Thanks Don…
I was with you in Mexico, it was good to read this info again. Great refresher. I appreciate all you do… as always, thanks.

By: wizwow

wizwow — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:51:40 +0000

I use the zoomed flashes a lot. These are not zoomed.

By: Arcangelo

Arcangelo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:57:52 +0000

Don as you set the zoom of the flash?

By: wizwow

wizwow — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:14:25 +0000

hey Dave.
Thanks.

As for sync speed, there really isn’t anything to do about it for the most part.
Which is why you never see those kinds of shots.
Hassies and RB’s will sync at 1/500, but that is pushing the limits for most lenses.

Help is on the way, though. Pocket Wizard has a new one that we shot at 1/2400 with an Elinchrome Ranger at half power. that thing was awesome. I know that CLS will do it as will the Canon SU system, but then the light isn’t nearly as powerful so full length and larger shots are simply not possible at full daylight.

Radio Poppers I believe will work, but not with studio or large strobe systems.

Keep watching though, new stuff out all the time.

–don

By: Dave L

Dave L — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:01:43 +0000

Great tutorial….very cool.

Question for you wizz, how do you deal with the old sync speed problem in bright sunlight? For example, what happens if you are shooting outside on a bright sunny day, you don’t have shade and you want to use F2.8 and throw the background out of focus? I have heard of things such as Radio poppers which allow you to sync at higher speeds?

What are your thoughts?

Thanks

Dave
http://www.broadstonemedia.com