David Mitchell
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
After checking out the 'phlearn' channel on Youtube (loads of useful tutorials on there, quite a few on retouching a photoshop as well). Anyway, I was quite interested in how the lighting affected the images and wanted to have a go with some flash units. Over the year of collecting various cameras and accessories I have aquired what seems to be a pretty good, but fairly old school chunky flash unit. The unit has around a billion controls on the back which I need to check the manual through to see what everything does lol.
Anyway, I was thinking about getting a cheap and simple wireless transmitter for my camera and a receiver for the flash unit, I can then simply mount it onto a tripod or something to give the angle etc I want.
Although I won't ever have a studio or anything professional like that, I understand that if I wanted to photograph any objects (much like the work Pete is doing with his epic seed collection) I would want to control my light more.
I might also want to do a few head and shoulders portraits at some point in the future if anyone I knew was interested, this would mainly be something for myself to have a go with.
I am just wondering if anyone had some wireless transmitters etc they could recommend, I guess I would just need them to plug into the hot shoes of the camera and flash, not sure if I would want cables etc although I guess that might work as well.
Just wondering what setup other people have
After checking out the 'phlearn' channel on Youtube (loads of useful tutorials on there, quite a few on retouching a photoshop as well). Anyway, I was quite interested in how the lighting affected the images and wanted to have a go with some flash units. Over the year of collecting various cameras and accessories I have aquired what seems to be a pretty good, but fairly old school chunky flash unit. The unit has around a billion controls on the back which I need to check the manual through to see what everything does lol.
Anyway, I was thinking about getting a cheap and simple wireless transmitter for my camera and a receiver for the flash unit, I can then simply mount it onto a tripod or something to give the angle etc I want.
Although I won't ever have a studio or anything professional like that, I understand that if I wanted to photograph any objects (much like the work Pete is doing with his epic seed collection) I would want to control my light more.
I might also want to do a few head and shoulders portraits at some point in the future if anyone I knew was interested, this would mainly be something for myself to have a go with.
I am just wondering if anyone had some wireless transmitters etc they could recommend, I guess I would just need them to plug into the hot shoes of the camera and flash, not sure if I would want cables etc although I guess that might work as well.
Just wondering what setup other people have
