Help with studio lighting set up

[Newbie2017]

Hi all,

I need your assistance with my studio lighting set up. I have a Phottix Aster trigger & receiver set. I have the trigger on my cameras hotshoe and 2 receivers that are plugged into each of my studio lights.

The set up works great however today while shooting I had other people using their cameras as well. 1 in particular was able to trigger my studio lights, which affecting me shooting when I wanted to.

How can I stop other cameras from triggering my studio lights? I'm assuming it's the settings on my trigger and receivers.

Here are the settings available on my trigger and receivers:

Trigger: on/all/off and 1/2/3/4
Receivers: on/off and W/L and 1/2/3/4

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

 

[canefield]

The Phottix should have separate channels (the 1/2/3/4 would be the channels). Pick any channel on the receiver. Set your trigger to the same channel number. Tell the other photographer to set their channel to something else.

 

[Designer]

You might be able to switch off the slave function, since you aren't using it yourself.

 

[tirediron]

You might be able to switch off the slave function, since you aren't using it yourself.

Agree; I would think it a lot more likely that someone's speedlight was hitting the monolight's slave sensor and triggering it, but if not, then the channel switching advice applies.

 

[Derrel]

That was my first thought: that perhaps the monolight's slave trigger is set to ON, and somebody else in the shooting area is using a flash unit that is triggering your lighting gear. Could such an issue possibly apply to you?

 

[Newbie2017]

The Phottix should have separate channels (the 1/2/3/4 would be the channels). Pick any channel on the receiver. Set your trigger to the same channel number. Tell the other photographer to set their channel to something else.

That was my first thought: that perhaps the monolight's slave trigger is set to ON, and somebody else in the shooting area is using a flash unit that is triggering your lighting gear. Could such an issue possibly apply to you?

Hi there, I've got my trigger & both receivers all on the same channel, the other photographer didn't have a trigger, he was using the built in flash. Hence

You might be able to switch off the slave function, since you aren't using it yourself.

Agree; I would think it a lot more likely that someone's speedlight was hitting the monolight's slave sensor and triggering it, but if not, then the channel switching advice applies.

Hi there, please bear with me, this is so new to me. I've got my trigger and both receivers all set to the same channel. The other photographer was using his built in flash.

How do I switch off the slave function?

What's the monolight slave trigger? Is that the studio lights receiver.

The trigger would be what

 

[Newbie2017]

You might be able to switch off the slave function, since you aren't using it yourself.

Hi there, how do I do This?

 

[Designer]

You might be able to switch off the slave function, since you aren't using it yourself.

Hi there, how do I do This?

Look at the controls of your studio lights. If there is a switch that says "slave", switch it to "off".

 

[Derrel]

Yup, on the studio flash, the Slave or "Remote" button, sometimes has a weird 'eyeball' icon...it triggers the flash to fire when it "sees" another flash fire...