Kapa's Blog

I’m still a bit of a kid when it comes to gadgets, & couldn’t wait to start playing with my new toys being remote flash triggers. Unfortunately for my family, they had to put up with my testing and playing.

A remote flash trigger, is used to fire a flash that is not connected to the camera. If anyone has seen me work, you will have noticed that I’m a fan of using and off camera flash, usually with a long cord. These remote triggers will allow me some more creativity, flexibility and options when shooting. Here are some examples of what I can achieve with these.

My wife, cooking a delicious dinner (and telling me to go play somewhere else). The foreground of this image is lit using the ambient light from the kitchen, a tad underexposed however it suits the picture. The flash is sitting on the bench top behind her, giving her a “rim light” around her body & hair.

With a remote trigger, you can also place the flash into objects & confined areas. This will give the illusion of a light source from somewhere unexpected. My young one looking into his backpack.

And of course, the very old trick of making it look like the light source is coming from the computer screen. In all images of someone working on a computer, you can guarantee that the glow coming from the computer screen was generated by a remote flash.

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Commonly known as Kerry & Nick, however that’s what was printed on the invite so that’s what I’ll call them here. It’s great when I attend a wedding as an invited guest with my wife and kids, and this was one of those occasions. I travelled light (equipment wise) and only had my Canon P&S that I was raving about recently, makes a HUGE difference carrying something the size of a deck of cards that slips into your pants pocket. Once again, I was impressed by the performance of this little unit, here are some of my favourites:

The service was held at the Greek Orthodox Parish & Community of St. Nectarios and I sat upstairs with my family where I took this image of Kerry’s dress, would have loved to have had one of my long lens’s and SLR to pick up the detail in it.

Outside the kids were given bubbles while the adults had to settle for rice & confetti.

Kerry & Nick leaving the church showered in whatever was thrown on them.

For their first dance they were surrounded by smoke, romantic light, and each other.