Blizzard Round Three

Okay so today is the the third time blizzard conditions are going to hit the Metro Area and I decided to take advantage of the snow before driving conditions get feisty. So I grabbed my girlfriend and we set off to the "woods" which aren't much of woods really just just a corporate area called Corporate Woods where they have a park with a river near it. Because it was so cold we really only had like 10 minutes to set up and shoot before we would lose a toe or something. Poor girl got the worst because she was wearing heels walking through snow... it was about thirty feet from the car which we left on so we could hop back in a try to get warm again which took for ever for my thumb that had to stay exposed because I was using that hand to hold the camera.

So now onto what I did. Since I'v been creeping on my favorite blog strobist which is all about using portable lighting I decide to try and use my bounce flash umbrella as a fill to give her a little bit more light and stop and illuminate the snow. Because snow is one of the brightest natural light situations I had to put the flash to full power (always use manual on you flash and not TTL it gives you real consistency) and use an ISO of Lo 1.0 which is the lowest my camera goes. Then as for the exposure I set f-stop to f/4 and the shutter speed to 500 this would allow the ambient light to be slightly overpowered by the flash. So I placed the umbrella flash front right of the camera and started shooting.

This is what happened.

My Set Up

THIS IS MY SET UP:

-Nikon d300

-Nikon 50mm f/1.4

-Sigma 15mm f/2.8

-Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6

-Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8

-Sigma 150-500mm f/5.6-6.3

- 2 Nikon SB-600 Flashes

-Shoot Through Umbrella

-Bounce Umbrella

- 2 flash stands

- Ring Flash see blog

- Some Third Party Sync Cord

I will update when necessary

Here's a picture of some of it :)

Homemade Flash Ring

Hey.

This is the first of many posts to come about photography and anything worthy of blogging about.

So lets stop chewing the fat a get to the meat of this post!

OK so I made myself this handy little flash ring for only $15 (assuming that you have a Sb-600 flash or any other, a hot shoe sync cord, and a hot glue gun already)

ALL IT TOOK WAS!!!

-A bigger rounded tub-a-ware $1 (Dollar General)

-A smaller rounded tub-a-ware $2 (Dollar General)

-Foil tape $8 (Home Depot)

-Box Cutter $1.50 (Dollar General)

-A hard plastic cup $1 (Dollar General) ps. They are the thickness of baseball game beer cups.

SOOOO those are the ingredients now what about the recipe?!?!?

Well I found this neat little diagram that helped me make my own ;P http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/239141592_29784dc484_o.png

oh... you need a flikr if your going to want to look at that...

AND! by the way my flikr acount is epicsanonymous

don't really update it too often but yeah.

ANYWAY!

Here are some photo that I took to test this out this morning First one is ME :) sorry for Low Quality :(

Here is the flash ring itself

So im not so sure of all the uses of it yet beside future fasion photo endevours, but I'll upload all the photos I take with it worth uploading!

OOOH the girlfriend just used my Ringflash for a Yearbook photo! here it is!