First real test using off camera flash with the EM-5.
Think we'll have to redo this picture some day a little more controlled and with more post processing pherhaps, liked this one quite a bit as it is now so decided to upload it :-)
Haven't got any real good modifiers such as nice big softboxes yet, considering either a studio flash with soft box or converting some soft boxes to the normal small flashes.
The flash I used here was a Nikon SB-900 shot through a white sheet.
Just some test and not too much PP, conversation in Silver Efex Pro II but haven't done anything else to the picture so far.
Used the Pan Leica 25mm for a few different reasons, one is that my little one room flat isn't big enough to get half body shots with anything longer, second is that my father has borrowed the Oly 45mm (he seems to like it as I haven't seen it for a while :-P ) and third is because the lens almost lives on my EM-5 :-)
Where you are playing with adding light, I'm playing with very little light. Went out this morning after the cold front came through along with a little snow. Shots were hand held at ISO 12800. I wanted to play with some software plugins to see how well they could deal with these shots. These were processed with some Topaz plugins. As with many, if not most, you can only do so much!
Wilbus wrote:
First real test using off camera flash with the EM-5.
Think we'll have to redo this picture some day a little more controlled and with more post processing pherhaps, liked this one quite a bit as it is now so decided to upload it :-)
Haven't got any real good modifiers such as nice big softboxes yet, considering either a studio flash with soft box or converting some soft boxes to the normal small flashes.
The flash I used here was a Nikon SB-900 shot through a white sheet.
Just some test and not too much PP, conversation in Silver Efex Pro II but haven't done anything else to the picture so far.
Used the Pan Leica 25mm for a few different reasons, one is that my little one room flat isn't big enough to get half body shots with anything longer, second is that my father has borrowed the Oly 45mm (he seems to like it as I haven't seen it for a while :-P ) and third is because the lens almost lives on my EM-5 :-) ...Show more →
I only have the tiny flash that comes with the OM-D in terms of flash for m4/3, but I wanted to use it for Thanksgiving family photos yesterday instead of the 5d2. So I went totally ghetto - I used a radio trigger on the OM-D (cheap ebay one) with my 430EX, shot totally manual, holding the OM-D in one hand and the 430EX in my other..........
I was pretty happy with the results for the most part though - it just took some experimentation with exposure....
I really need to stop looking through these threads after I have sold things off. Just picked up another EM-5, grip, 45, and 75. Well, at least this body is all black so at least that was different. Hell, one of the lenses I just sold hasn't even made it to the buyer yet and I've already bought another! Something is seriously wrong with me. If I spent half the time trying to shoot rather than exercising GAS, I'd probly be a decent photographer
Michael - Love them both but I am partial to the landscape (more my comfort level as well)!
Bored - and very cold outside, I decided to play with a couple of Zeiss ZE lenses on my OM-D. One with the 15mm Distagon, the other with the 100mm Makro-Planar. Nothing special but showing a few of my favorite things!
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