365/64 – Black and White with Snoot, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

First of all I am going back in time with the numbering here as I have some how gotten off track. Since most of these go to my blog it seems to be a bit messy changing the name later so now I am back to the right number of shots, 64.
After listening to an all about flash podcast by lensflare35 and the Digital Experience group I wanted to try my honl snoot for the back lighting. I guess it turned out OK (but not great).
So here is the lighting:
Canon 430EX II high camera right fired @ 1/8 power through the shoot-thru umbrella with the RadioPopper JrX.
Vivitar @ 1/4 power fired with the Sonia optical slave through a Honl snoot. Post processing is with Silver Efex Pro.

365/65 – Down to Business, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Today was just a photo of this cool dude. Sorry to say this was a quick photo with a special purpose and I just left the 430EX II on camera. Bad on me.

365/64 – Backlight Heavy, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Just as the title implies this was more light from behind. I was working on getting separation. I should have had my head more into the frame to see the full effect but it’s a start.
The key light is the 430EX II high camera right fired at 1/16 power with the RadioPopper JrX and the Vivitar fired at 1/2 behind subject left with optical slave.
Also a little post processing with Topaz Adjust to try and make me look a little better.

365/63 – Scavenger Hunt Work, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Today I was out with my team members to start our part of the spring scavenger hunt. It is all about portraits and we were working on a silhouette today. We had to up the shutter with the sun behind the subject. I tried with 1/1000 and f11 but that was not the right setting though in ACR I can pretty much make it work almost right.

3656/61 – March Meeting, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Just a quick one of our March meeting. Everyone is listening to a talk by one of the top local photogs on panos and hdr.

365/56 – Harder Light, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

I really need to get out tomorrow or have have something else to use as a model because I am getting tired of the same ole thing (me). At least my model is always nearby and it does give me the opportunity to see some of the effects of the Honl light modifiers. The lighting tonight was the Canon 430EX II fired @ 1/8 power with a RadioPopper JrX. I used the Honl system strap and snoot opened up as a reflector.

365/55 – Polaroid Transfer, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Here I used 2 lights. A bit more power than I like. At post I was looking through the Nik Color Efects trial that I am using and found this polaroid transfer effect that I like.

365/54 – Kitty Shot, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Thought I would do a 2 flash photo tonight using the IR remote and holding the cat. Everything went fairly well except that it was a 1 light shot. Found out the second flash works much better with the batteries. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.
The Canon 430EX II was fired at 1/4 power with RadioPopper through an umbrella.

365/53 – Joey and Me, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Tonight I wanted to get a change in background and a nice change in subject too. It’s’ nice to have someone with me in the photo and who better than my Joey. Behind us is one of her great murals.
Strobist info:
Canon 430EX II at 1/2 power fired with the RadioPopper JrX and through an umbrella.

365/51 – Bounce It, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Trying to determine if I get more light on a shoot through or a bounce of the umbrella. As you can see in my glasses this is the bounce shot but I still don’t know the answer since my little studio is small and I didn’t get the speedlite at the same distance on each shot.
This is my Canon 430EX II camera left near me bounced off the umbrella. Fired with the RadioPopper @ 1/4 power. Camera is manual with f8 and 1/250.