They should be arrested for impersonating a power ranger...

yep. in my studio, last night and this am, will use for an actual photo this week.... stay tuned!

Pentax was too busy...working on this link perhaps?

Torch? The grown ups prefer to play with "frickin lasers"...


like these:

oooooohhh ahhhhhh..... need an ipad adaptor please pentax....
link

anaglyph 3-d is fun and easy, no special camera gear required, glasses cost about a buck if you locate a 3-d book at a Dollar/bargain store. Total cost for stationary 3-d? about a buck.
For those with two cameras with identical lenses? mount your cameras eye width apart and build a remote release to fire them both...
here is one my six year old did (with help from dad of course), a little off but not bad...

Hi Judith you bough the best flash.
I don't care much for the p-ttl auto everything flash features, and use mainly manual, occasionally auto (vivitar 283's) with primes or constant aperture zooms.

play with the flash you bought, (the strobe function is fun..).
Once you get the hang of manual and shooting modes, trailing curtian sync... etc...
you'll want to keep that flash forever. it works great with multi flash setups as well.

If you buy yourself an af 360 fgz flash to go with it, you'll be able to use them both together for some really nice multi light setups.... you will never out grow the 500 ftz.

Well, the 16-45 and k10 work a little too well for me... I'd like to go shopping for more glass, but Gerri keeps saying "There is nothing wrong with the photos you're getting...." so what can you do?

between the 16-45, the 10-17 fisheye, the 50 1.4 and 100 mm macro, I manage quite well.

I did just get the 35 2.4 and it is surprisingly good as well.

The trick is to simply learn each lenses abilities and use each where it performs best.

With faster shutter speeds I might have opted to try the 50 1.4 and gotten a little sharper detail in the eyelashes for example, but the wide angle perspective (and need to move furniture around to get a better camera position) works, she isn't very tall and to give her prominence in the frame, the wide angle was best choice.

We had a half hour to set up and shoot....
pentax k10 and 16-45

closer to a full second.... small aperture and gas fire.... the long exposure was to get the fire to register and balance with the flash..... the shadow is off a chandelier from the ceiling...

This is the Famous Fort Garry Hotel, in Winnipeg. I like the cat idea, will burn in the table a bit while I'm at it.

Lighting consisted of three sources:

a little bluish daylight leaking in from the edges of some very large windows with heavy drapes... from the (viewers)right. this added some color to the fill light and allowed the fire to register.

a little warm fill from the incandescent lights which the hotel staff were kind enough to dim right down until it was almost dark.

one 250 watt gridded gelled strobe behind the model, facing the mantle.

one 250 watt strobe, shoot through umbrella providing both main and fill for the model, again to the right of the camera near the windows.. a full length silver reflector on the camera left to pick up detail in the black dress...

Then there is a 500 watt strobe with narrow reflector outside the room in another room shooting through the doors into the room fired with a radio slave.

The model worked hard, we lost a few shots to motion blur...