I had my SB-600 with a medium size softbox on a tripod. My new SB-700, attached with my Gary Fong Lightsphere was perched on my camera on another tripod. I placed the SB-600 (slave) to one side and turned the flash head/softbox up towards the ceiling. My camera was turned sideways (portrait) and the SB-700 (master) flash head was turned up towards the ceiling as well.
I had to program my SB-600 as a slave. Not having any instruction book handy, I just played with a couple buttons. Okay, not knowing what all the icons and symbols meant...I headed over to my buddy Google.com and found what I needed. I made the change on my flash to slave and it gave me the default channel 3 and group A.
I configured my SB-700 to master which entailed holding down a button and turning the flash on to Master on the dial. That was way too simple. I tried a test flash with the master flash and noticed my slave wasn't going off. Hmmmmm. I remembered the number 3 and the letter A from the slave flash default setting. I looked at the settings again on the master and noticed it was on channel 1. A quick change to channel 3 and I was all set.
It took several shots before I finally got the hang of taking a self portrait using the two flashes. Here's my first studio test shot.
BTW, I also used my corded remote control to take the pictures. All I had to do was plug it into my camera and it was ready to go.
I'm just having way too much fun!
3 comments:
You've done well and you look happy in front of the camera too.
I am impressed! And you look wonderful...what a great shot! It took be forever to set up my flash as a slave and, since I haven't done it in such a long time, I know the next time will be very trying. Again, love this photo! Congrats!
Ladies...thank you for the complements. BTW...I plan on doing a post in the near future on how to change the SB-600 from Master to Slave. I just need to take some pics of the flash gun display.
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