Speedlinks Bucket Overflows, Flooding Basement
What with all of the Halloween festivities this weekend, I completely forgot about the speedlinks bucket. I left it on downstairs, where it continued to fill with links sent in via the comments section.
Long story short, the basement is now completely flooded with excess speedlinks. The cat was marooned on the island/couch and we had to wade through everything to rescue her. She was pissed, and apparently shredded one of the speedlinks beyond recognition.
But there's plenty of good stuff left over, after the jump.
Speedlinks: 11/3/2008
• Over at DG28.com, Neil Turner shows you how to use foreground elements to hide your lights in a photo.
• Too worried about the financial meltdown to spring for a LumiQuest SB-III? Here's a link to a DIY version.
• Remember that killer Kung Fu shoot? Chase did a video on how he did the high-speed water burst shots. Reader's Digest version: Cody knifes a balloon.
• Sports shooter Mark Rebilas spends a rare off-weekend practicing with a ring flash in his garage studio setup.
• Hot shot car photographer Ken Brown stumbled across a video of Martin Schoeller shooting Paris Hilton. (Normally Schoeller's female subjects are more built...)
• Hulu has an "In Harm's Way" episode moved to the web that featured two war photographers. For some reason, this seems to be retricted to US viewers only. If you find a proxy workaround, please post in the comments.
• The F Stop features a walk-thru of a high-end shoot for Adidas. Not speedlight-friendly at all. Not even close...
• Pocketwizard, Schmocketwizard: Robert Benson can trigger his remote cameras from twenty miles away.
• Hiding the Lights, Version 2.0: I have stuck a lot of flashes in a lot of places. But I have never thought of sticking one here. To the recently-married Zack Arias, words of wisdom: Let the assistant position the Sunpak 120j's from now on.
• And last but not least, hippie-to-be-square Dave Honl blogs about his lit Halloween self portraits. Yeah, bay-bee, yeeeeeeeeaaahhh...
Long story short, the basement is now completely flooded with excess speedlinks. The cat was marooned on the island/couch and we had to wade through everything to rescue her. She was pissed, and apparently shredded one of the speedlinks beyond recognition.
But there's plenty of good stuff left over, after the jump.
Speedlinks: 11/3/2008
• Over at DG28.com, Neil Turner shows you how to use foreground elements to hide your lights in a photo.
• Too worried about the financial meltdown to spring for a LumiQuest SB-III? Here's a link to a DIY version.
• Remember that killer Kung Fu shoot? Chase did a video on how he did the high-speed water burst shots. Reader's Digest version: Cody knifes a balloon.
• Sports shooter Mark Rebilas spends a rare off-weekend practicing with a ring flash in his garage studio setup.
• Hot shot car photographer Ken Brown stumbled across a video of Martin Schoeller shooting Paris Hilton. (Normally Schoeller's female subjects are more built...)
• Hulu has an "In Harm's Way" episode moved to the web that featured two war photographers. For some reason, this seems to be retricted to US viewers only. If you find a proxy workaround, please post in the comments.
• The F Stop features a walk-thru of a high-end shoot for Adidas. Not speedlight-friendly at all. Not even close...
• Pocketwizard, Schmocketwizard: Robert Benson can trigger his remote cameras from twenty miles away.
• Hiding the Lights, Version 2.0: I have stuck a lot of flashes in a lot of places. But I have never thought of sticking one here. To the recently-married Zack Arias, words of wisdom: Let the assistant position the Sunpak 120j's from now on.
• And last but not least, hippie-to-be-square Dave Honl blogs about his lit Halloween self portraits. Yeah, bay-bee, yeeeeeeeeaaahhh...
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Posted at 5:41 PM.
11 Comments:
Halloween with Claudia Christianson ... sweet.
That documentary is sort of Chase Jarvis video meets Fear Factor or something. Kinda cheesy.
I find Hotspot Shield to be the best bet for accessing Hulu et al from up here north of the border.
I wonder how the patent people will deal with Mr. Benson's brilliant (i can't get over it) yet FCC violating creation...
iPod controler will probably not work, given that he has two videos demonstrating its photographic use on youtube!
I have a Proxy Workaround! I use "hotspot Shield" on Mac, but there is also a windowsversion. Works fin, though I wouldn't to banking business via this connection.
http://anchorfree.com/hotspot-shield/
David, I have DIY version (softbox for flash). Visit my website please. Handy Softbox
Robert Benson's trigger devise is really clever - and, to my untrained eye, quite simple. And he's right, it certainly does beat the self timer!
I wonder what restrictions there might be over here in the UK? Has anyone experimented?
Slightly off-topic, I seem to recall a while back a link was posted to another homemade PW camera trigger over on the Sports Shooter website. Can anyone remember this and remind us please? Thanks.
Hi David
Have created a step by step guide for creating a cheap DIY Strobe Mount for Softboxes.
Hope it's of use to fellow Strobists :)
Cheers Dave
Robert Benson's trigger - why all the fuss? A sound trigger and two cell phones can do the job just as well, and you have a range of at least 12000 miles!
Found a super cool video of Bruce Gilden and his Leica/off camera flash street photography ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIWW6vwrvM
Cheers
*steve
I'm sorry, but I just can't help this: When Strobist's basement is full of speedlinks, is that a flash flood?
Damn...I though he said speedlights! I was about to run around to Davids house and relieve him of all those excess speedlights - all in the sake of himanity...gotta save the cat...but a cat that can shred a speedlight is one tough moggy!
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