Recent content by blazzar

Both beautiful shots, couple of things I would try (though may not be what you are looking for): - shot 1 - bring a little more detail out of the left hand side rocks, that may be just a display issue here that I can't quite see the detail - shot 2 - think I would crop a little off the bottom...

I have this one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-036-DE&groupid=17&catid=510&subcat= Absolute cracker, I run my MBP, a Windows 7 PC and a PS3 through it and handles it all like a charm.

It's showing a tad dark on my monitor especially the bottom left area, if you lightroom/aperture try to add a graduated filter effect across that area if you can. I also think you have a bit too much sky, perhaps a more widescreen style crop would work?

To be able to do that the player would need to have either a FTP server built in or some form of file share broadcast facility, I suspect that if you have not found a setting for either of these things it wont work. I have netgear and western digital players that dont have that ability either so...

Photoshop has some prebuilt functions to do that for you in the file menu for batch processing, tell it the size, format and which pics you want, it does the rest.

The quickest way to fix your problem is to use a tool to manage the process for you e.g Lightroom or Aperture. They will provide: - a consistent way to import your photos - an easy way to mark pictures for deleting later on - way to stay on top of what has been edited/not - provide the tools...

There is a chance you have installed a drive that was a slower speed than your original (ie 5400 rpm vs 7200 rpm) and it is keeping the pics in RAM for too long due to the read/write taking longer. Try and export the discs to your external drive (if you aren't doing that already) as that may...

The Bowens 150 is a monster, it has a very heavy metal support for the middle, you would be better off with a Westcott Apollo 50 for portability. If you are set on the Bowens 150 you can buy a speedlight to s type adaptor and fit that inside the octo, loads of them on ebay.

I have the sekonic 358 and use it about 20-30% of the time I shoot with flash. When using 3 or more lights I find it very helpful, with one or two I would just make do with the camera display/histogram

I use a boom for the ring flash so I can flip it upside down or on it's side, then a tripod if if I am shooting product shots. Otherwise I ditch the tripod and hand hold it, I often shoot near the ring flash rather than through it as well.

I have one and can take some pics but to be honest I cant ever remember using the bracket to hold the camera on as I want to be moving about with the camera. Unless you are shooting still life Im sure you would be better off without it.

Yeah a good glue might well be the answer to that.

Will see if I can measure tomorrow night, just did a conversion of an Elinchrom octa to fit a Bowens head so have both bits (blog has details of the conversion).

Just did a little write up of a conversion I did to get the Elinchrom Deep Octa on my Bowens head and thought you may be interested: http://blog.lloydstretton.com/post/3382409924/elinchrom-deep-octa-for-bowens

Got a few on my portfolio (numbers 1,3,4,5,7,17,18 on the main page) on a storm grey 1.72, colour tone changed with gels on flash and/or by adjusting white balance point on camera. http://lloydstretton.com