Finally watched Ponyo, it's an amazing movie (say someone who is 23 :blush.

If you like the Disney classics with a good story and don't mind the Japanese influence/culture then this a must watch imho.

It's about a... well a sort off magical goldfish and she escapes her fathers lab (he's some kind of biologist/magician) and gets found a by a boy.
The boy takes care for her and all kinds of things happen that off sets the balance of the earth, big storms and that sort of thing and they not really set out to restore the balance but they do so in the end.

It sounds very confusing and it indeed sound very confusing because it's so different then western movies and you just have to see it.
If you want a western movie that come close then it would be The Little Mermaid from Disney but sprinkled with fairy dust to add some more fantasy and magic


No idea why i'm doing a review here but who cares it's the pointless thread right

If you know how to work with one strobe then begin with that, setup it up perfectly and then add the other flash around 1 to 2 stops less of flash power it needs to be just enough to fill/soften the shadows a little bit from the main flash, it doesn't need to do much more. If you use too much power then it will create shadows on his own but if you keep it low the Main flash will overpower those shadows..

Hopefully this helps a bit.

As for the umbrella's use either the shoot through's for the softest light, you can place them pretty close you know so they would deliver quite a lot of light.
Or the silver ones since they use the light most effectively and they are quite neutral from colour.

Like you said you want to use the onboard flash to trigger both strobes that means the onboard flash needs to be master or Controller so that it can trigger both the Strobes, they should be on Slave since they need to be trigger by the onboard flash. Be sure they all have the same wireless channel.

If work on with the strobes on manual is too complicated.
Set both strobes on P-TTL and set one to 2/3 and the other 1/3th.
One flash acts as main light then and the other flash a bit lighter, softening/filling in the shadows so to say.
You can control the overall output of these flashes by controlling the EV Flash compensation on your camera if you want.
If you go into the flash menu of the camera where you can select the flashes you can change the compensation.

Just set the setup up at home and play with it till you are confident you've control over it.

To be honest, I think those work simpler then setting up P-TTL wireless to trigger the flashes and work more reliably.
But it would be hard to get them so fast indeed.

Why do they always wait till the last minute before asking for advice, the same happened to fashion shooter last week.
You get a lot off advice without a real change to try them out.

Yes correct, the strobes should be set to Slave, the Master or Controller activated the Slaves.

You can also for a couple of bucks buy Yongnuo RF-602 or Cactus V4.
That way you don't need to work with a controller or master light to trigger the other strobes.

The lens goes for the same amount in Pounds so i would say yes

Don't want to comment on the setup.
I think you should use RAW though, it's not that big off an hassle to process and it gives you the ability to rescue shots better if you don't nailed the exposure for example.
And a good RAW photo takes 5 seconds to be ready for a print if you don't have that time

The modes you should use is Manual on the camera and Manual on the flash, that's the only way you have control over everything and can be sure the shots are the same again and again. White balance you can leave on Auto if you want, AWB works pretty well with flash light.

I also voted for Adrian, they light is just so lovely soft.
I also really like the lighting in #3, 4 and 8, very nice.
And just the action and the smile on the girls face on #5 is to melt for ^^
It shows that a good photo doesn't have to be sharp.

#1 lacks something off interest to focus on, also the placing of the trees in the middle is not so correct it would have been better if they would be more to the sides, 3th rules and such you know.

#6 has the composition correct, i think the photo would have been more exciting if a lower point of view was chosen?

#7 love the way how the dof creates a focus point and i actually like the wires running across the photo, it creates some tension.
Don't know what lens was used but i think a closer shot and less dof would have made the shot better.


What do you guys/girls think?

Going back isn't that bad, you gain 1 hour but if the clocks go forward you lose an hour

Promo video from Mammut
Just some kids climbing... link

Funny story behind it.
This was taken just behind 9/11 i believe.
At least when you enter the USA they take your finger prints... strangely enough they had some problems with their finger prints

Barrie do you mean what I think you mean link