by Gavin Seim: Triggering flashes wirelessly is becoming a popular creative lighting tool. Popular flashes from Canon and Nikon often have built in wireless, but its basically working with old infrared technology making it essentially a line of sight tool with limited reliability.
To resolve this, various third part products have come to the market. Pocket Wizards have been a popular choice and their early units, though larger and only providing manual control, seem to have a good reputation. More recently we’ve seen products that offer not only manual, but full auto control.
So, on to my straight dope review. First I purchased PW’s new Flex Control TL series which have full TTL functionality and high speed sync (Canon only for now, but Nikon coming soon). Sadly I was disappointed with almost useless results (for me at least). Range was claimed to be hundreds of feet and actual tests would not even produce consistent results at fifty.
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Click To Listen>> Photography Podcast. PPS #57
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On Todays Show: Gavin Seim – Trey Ratcliff. This week I talk about attending workshops, the new Pocket Wizards and join HDR legend Trey Ratcliff for a great talk about the world of photography and HDR.
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Click To Listen>> Photography Podcast. PPS #54
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Today’s topics: Industry & PPS news. Getting your photography noticed.
Host: Gavin Seim ~ Seim Studios
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Show Notes & Links:
The Canon 5D MK2 firmware 1.07 is available.
Also here’s some 5D MK II High ISO samples I posted.
PPS contest winners & sponsors are announced here.
Gavins’ Interview on pieces of the picture.
Planning an HDR workshop in Washington. Also thinking about going to Ireland next winter. Email Gavin you have thoughts on Ireland, or are interested in attending the workshop.
Check out the OnOne Plugin Suite4 Straight Dope Review.
OnOne has given PPS’ers a 20% off discount good till Feb 28th. Use Promo Code PRPHT2
I’ve started the HDR portrait & wedding group on Flickr, as well as the Incredible HDR group. You can also join the main PPS Flickr group.
Follow Gavin on Twitter.
Power Workflow 2.2 presets have been released.
Use Promo Code PPS to save 15%
My new wedding photography site is working well.
Here’s the bridal show booth picture and info.
Pocket Wizards and Radio Poppers are RF add on’s instead of using built in Infrared on your flash.
Canon RC1 remote works on 5D MK II. It’s cheap too. I’m getting one.
Gavin ordered the Black Rapid strap.
Lightroom 2.3 beta is on available Adobe Labs.
Let’s talk about online galleries and photo selling.
Smugmug, Zenfolio, Exposure Manager, Instaproofs, Collages. Even install your own with somethihg like Pictures Pro.
What do you like and why?
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Show Notes…
So here are some links from this weeks fun show with Neil. First of all is Neil’s website and articles can be found by going to www.planetneil.com
We also discussed Pocket Wizards for adding wireless flexibility to our lights.
For us Canon flash user Neil also mentioned the Canon battery extender CP-E3
So here is the link to the item at B+H Photo.
Neil also mentioned Breeze Browser for quickly sorting his images. I hope I’m not forgetting anything here, but if I have feel free to let me know. I hope yout all enjoying the show, and look forward to the future of PPS… Gavin
