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K_Strecker Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #1 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day The groundwork. I've shot in this venue before. converted old church, eccentric owners with unique decorating and lighting taste. This is literally the lighting and exposure level in the room. The white balance in this shot was set to Tungsten, because that's truely what the bulbs in those fixtures are . . . before they were gelled to oblivion. With a few CFLs thrown in for good measure. Nevermind the fact that it took 1/15 @ f/2.8 ISO 6400 to get that exposure. Not gona work for a night of latin jazz and salsa dancing. If this were a wedding reception, and the flash was on-camera, bouncing would be the best plan. The ceiling isn't white, but it's a close-to-neutral baby blue, and the walls *are* white, so there's a good chance of getting good color balance. They're not too high either, so power is no problem. But, if you take those bounced flashes off camera, one on each side of the room, shooting up into the ceiling, and control their ratios, you can get some additional depth. Not to mention, eliminating the phenomenon of the far background going dark because you're bouncing the flash directly overhead. . . You can see the ratios doing some light sculpting on most of the shots. There's a clear highlight side and filled side. Much more dimension than a bounced on-camera flash can give. 1 mini on my 1D mkIII, ST-E2 on top. 1 580EX and 1 430EXII both on Flexes. 580EX is seperated from it's flex via OC cord, and the flex is simply clamped down on the ligthstand about 15 inches. With that out of the way, the results. Now, for the torture test. I found myself outside with the camera . . . and thought hmmmm . . . will it work? I disabled flash on the left image for the baseline, turned flash back on for the second. Again, just a Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 on camera, firing the canon flashes attached to flashes . . . 3 stories up at the back end of that room. alternate angle . . . and again, from further away, on the other side of the street. Sep 18, 2009 at 03:03 PM

boug Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #2 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day Nice to see a success story with this set-up.... I have a mini and two flexes; I'm planning on getting some AC7s instead of doing the OC cords; hopefully I'll get similar results. Sep 19, 2009 at 03:54 AM

Flyyvon Online Buy and Sell: On p.1 #3 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day Nice shots. This really helps since i'm struggling right now with my Flex's. Thank's for explaining your set up. One question if i could: Where you shooting in TTL mode or Manual on your flashes? Thank you in advance. Yvon. Sep 19, 2009 at 02:21 PM

K_Strecker Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #4 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day TTL mode. Have you gone through this before? Sep 19, 2009 at 03:50 PM

Flyyvon Online Buy and Sell: On p.1 #5 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day Thank you K_Strecker. I am using a Canon 5D Mark II and have changed the Camera model to my camera model. I left all the other configuration standard but was using some 430EX and not the EX II. I then changed those so will be testing everything this weekend. Helpfull post....Thank you. Yvon. Sep 19, 2009 at 03:55 PM

soupey Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #6 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day try resetting your pw units too, for some reason once i did a hard reset it seemed to be more reliable Nov 01, 2009 at 07:15 PM

TeeJay Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #7 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day do you use the ST-E2 on top of the miniTT1 to help focus in low light? Nov 04, 2009 at 12:25 AM

TTLKurtis Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #8 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day I need to play with my ST-E2 in conjunction with the mini/flex system... I've never once actually used the ST-E2 since I bought it over a year ago. Granted, I often find that off-camera the ETTL never works out well for me, so I often go into manual anyways... Nov 04, 2009 at 06:13 AM

K_Strecker Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #9 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day TeeJay wrote: do you use the ST-E2 on top of the miniTT1 to help focus in low light? Personally? no. With a 1D mkIII I haven't been in dark-enough situations to need AF assist. Not that I haven't been in DARK situations, but the camera's always been able to handle it. I have AF-assist disabled via custom function. Nov 04, 2009 at 11:21 AM

cgardner Online Image Upload: Off p.1 #10 · PocketWizard Mini/Flex save the day Save? I guess its a matter of goals for the mood of the lighting. In that same situation my goal indoors with flash wouldn't be to light up the entire room like an overcast day at high noon, which looks rather bland, but rather light it like a well lit stage or dark, sultry salsa dance salon: Dark background with one flash behind for rim-light with frontal fill to isolate the subjects just as a spotlight on a stage would. In the outdoor shots you rendered the flash lit window nicely, and used a nice balance of fill flash but dragged the shutter too much and blew the ambient highlights. The windows are also blown in the third wider shot. Chuck Nov 04, 2009 at 11:50 AM

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