The flash gun on full power, was just to the left of the open door, behind the frame, probably in hindsight that should have been on half power or less.

I'll go back and tweak the levels on the images.

Thanks Peter, yes, I agree, that's much better

Hi Peter, no, not intentional, when I get a mo, I'll check the original Tiff, could it have been lost in the transfer to a save for web jpeg?

Thanks for your views Nigel, This was fully manual

#4 for me on the first set, superb.

Thanks Peter,

This is pretty much straight from the camera so I can try and lift the area under the stairs, the lass isn't dark on my monitor, but I'd be keen to know from other PU users please if you find the same.

I didn't have another flashgun or trigger to be able to light the lower stairwell, I also think it draws the eye to the dress by not competing in terms of brightness, but that may just be me ?

My first attempt at using the Cactus triggers mixing flash with natural light, there was a skylight in the roof above the stairs in a Georgian house I'd organised a shoot with this lass.

I rigged up a Cactus RF60 on a stand about 2.5m up firing into an white umbrella and reflecting backwards with a Pentax flash on my Cactus trigger adding light into the room behind the door to add depth.

Quite pleased with the results, I was hoping to do some outdoor stuff earlier this week, but the extreme cold on Tuesday scuppered that, hoping to have another go this Wed or Thurs.

Thoughts and comments appreciated please.

I have both the 100 - 300 F4 and the 150 - 450, the latter is better imo for wildlife, I go to the mach loop several times a year and find the 150 - 450 a little unwieldy hand held and difficulty to follow the jets and zoom and harder still on a monopod.

Both, the 100 - 300 is superb and my go to lens on the hill, you can still get them used on this forum and fleabay in PK mount.

No problrm Tom

You should be ok to use it on Manual only which would fire from the centre pin only or go for a remote trigger of some sort, such as cactus but that'll be £80+