Off Camera Flash failure...

[MichiganFarts]

With strobed light (flash) the flash duration stops motion, not shutter speed.

A speed light at full poweer has a flash duration of about 1/1000 second. At lower power settings the duration gets even shorter. an SB-600 at 1/128 power has a flash duration of about 1/40,000 of a second.

You have to be mindful of which of the 2 shutter curtains the strobed light is synced to, and the x-sync speed of your camera (to make sure a shutter curtain isn't in your shot).

Exposure is controlled differently too when using strobed light.

Shutter speed controls the ambient light exposure, and aperture controls the strobed light exposure.

You guys are taking all the fun out of failing...now you're gonna make me try to do it right.

 

[KmH]

No problem. If you want to go through all the trial an error needed to re-invent the wheel....... :thumbup:

 

[MichiganFarts]

No problem. If you want to go through all the trial an error needed to re-invent the wheel....... :thumbup:

Sounds a little more dramatic than some guy screwing around with a flash, but I did hear somewhere, can't remember where, that "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new". That phrase has stuck with me for some amount of time now.

 

[Destin]

Orrr... put the flash on your camera's freakin hotshoe and shoot away. I know I know...too easy.

 

[KmH]

No problem. If you want to go through all the trial an error needed to re-invent the wheel....... :thumbup:

Sounds a little more dramatic than some guy screwing around with a flash, but I did hear somewhere, can't remember where, that "". That phrase has stuck with me for some amount of time now.

Yes that's a quote from Albert Einstein, but you can learn in a shorter period of time by being aware of the mistakes others have already made, rather than repeating them.

Strobed light photography is not new, but whatever trips your trigger.

 

[MichiganFarts]

Yes that's a quote from Albert Einstein, but you can learn in a shorter period of time by being aware of the mistakes others have already made, rather than repeating them.

Strobed light photography is not new, but whatever trips your trigger.

I have a confession...and this may be hard, for someone who just got his sig quoted to him and is still unawares, to grasp...

I have been a bit facetious this whole thread. I actually only attempted what I talked about in the OP for like 5mins. I was bored...have fun being all serious though.

 

[Lodd]

Why not get yourself a optical slave-trigger? you can only use the flash in manual mode but hey! a trigger like that is like 10 USD...

Btw. isn't the D70 compatible with Nikon CLS?
what flash are you using?