working with two speedlights

[wandyrafaela]

I try to fire my Nikon speedlight from the right but it doesn't work, it only works from the left why?

 

[cgipson1]

You may want to be a little bit more verbose in your explanation of what you are trying to do! Are you trying to remotely fire a speedlight using slave or CLS, or what? What speedlights do you have?

 

[Tee]

And was it during the day or night? If using the CLS, during the day I found you need the infrared sensor on the speedlight facing the camera flash. That's just my experience and found it was too much hassle and unreliability so I went radio triggers.

 

[Mot]

If it's anything like the Canon Speedlite system then you have to have the slave unit's receiver (red thing under the head) pointing to the master, that's another benefit of having the swivel head!

But yeah, help us help you by being a little bit more specific.

 

[KmH]

You have to be sure the sensor window on the flash body can 'see' the D7000. That's part of the reason the flash head can rotate.

 

[jake337]

Strange, I've never really had any issues(indoors). As long as its not around a corner. I've had an umbrella(shoot through) completely blocking the red sensor and it still fired. But also read your flashes manual. Certain angles work best.

 

[wandyrafaela]

Yeah I meant remotely it wouldn't work, but some of these suggestions are really good, thank you all so much. I'll be sure to try them and ask more questions if it doesn't work

 

[table1349]

You may want to be a little bit more verbose in your explanation of what you are trying to do! Are you trying to remotely fire a speedlight using slave or CLS, or what? What speedlights do you have?

Maybe the OP doesn't have an verbosity left. It is a weekend you know, and the stores that carry it may not be open. The OP could perhaps explain in greater detail what setup they are using.

 

[KmH]

Strange, I've never really had any issues(indoors). As long as its not around a corner. I've had an umbrella(shoot through) completely blocking the red sensor and it still fired. But also read your flashes manual. Certain angles work best.

If you can get favorible reflections, the needed line-of-sight can have changes of angle in it.