11/325 - Not quite the portrait I had in mind... but...

Hi folks

Another quick update here for the purpose of sharing a Project 325 image. Today sees a shot of my little radio controlled nitro buggy. That’s it really. There’s no ulterior motive behind the subject – it was simply a case of it was close to hand as I was walking out the door and I needed something different to photograph.

So I threw it in the back of the car and headed down to Champion Lakes housing estate with the Nikon D700, Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 lens and a couple of SB-900 flashes with accompanying Pixel triggers. Those triggers are about to find themselves on eBay I think. Whilst they are a great idea and the first on the market place, the word ‘pre-mature’ (and all its connotations!) spring to mind. I think the best thing to say about them is that they are not quite finished yet. Another couple of firmware upgrades and they might be better; but that doesn’t help me or anyone else that has them currently as we cannot upgrade the firmware ourselves. I really should have waited until PocketWizard FINALLY come out with their Flex and Mini Nikon compatible TTL triggers. Come on PocketWizard – how long does it take – really!!

Anyway, the image was actually taken using one SB-900 on camera as a master unit (that did not actually contribute to the exposure) and another SB-900 in remote mode was positioned on a high stand to shorten the length of the shadows it would cast and placed about 4 feet away. The D700 was in Aperture Priority mode, ISO 100. Exposure compensation was set to -2 stops to really darken the sky and the flash output was set to -0.7 of a stop to balance the overall exposure. That’s it. EXIF data tells me the camera was at 1/400^th second shutter speed @ f/4.

Catch ya later!