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Got a studio flash for my camera. **Bikini content inside**
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<blockquote data-quote="MinGrey02Stg2" data-source="post: 9707914" data-attributes="member: 16543"><p>So I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II and it doesn't come with a pop up flash (which are useless imo anyways) so I decided to get a flash to mount to the top of it. After using it for a week (it was the Canon 430 EXII), I returned it and ordered an Alien Bees B800 studio flash. They can be set up away from the camera and are waaay more powerful than a small hot shoe flash. The only problem is that they require AC power so you can't really take them mobile. Alien Bees sells a power pack called the Vagabond II for $300 which uses a small 12V battery and a 150W inverter so you can take it anywhere. I decided to build my own using a 125Ah marine battery (the Vagabond uses a 15Ah battery) and a 1500w continuous/3000w peak pure sine wave inverter (10 times the power of the Vagabond)... for more than $100 less.</p><p></p><p>This morning I got to try it out at the beach at sunrise. I set it up to see how it would work balancing the light so both the model and the sun/clouds would be exposed properly. They were shot with Canon 135mm f/2L and Canon 50mm f/1.8 lenses, and one B800 flash bounced from a 60" umbrella. Here they are:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221044[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221045[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221046[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221047[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221048[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221049[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221050[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221051[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221052[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221053[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221054[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Blurred because I don't want them HQ on the internetz, but you get the idea.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221055[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221056[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221057[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MinGrey02Stg2, post: 9707914, member: 16543"] So I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II and it doesn't come with a pop up flash (which are useless imo anyways) so I decided to get a flash to mount to the top of it. After using it for a week (it was the Canon 430 EXII), I returned it and ordered an Alien Bees B800 studio flash. They can be set up away from the camera and are waaay more powerful than a small hot shoe flash. The only problem is that they require AC power so you can't really take them mobile. Alien Bees sells a power pack called the Vagabond II for $300 which uses a small 12V battery and a 150W inverter so you can take it anywhere. I decided to build my own using a 125Ah marine battery (the Vagabond uses a 15Ah battery) and a 1500w continuous/3000w peak pure sine wave inverter (10 times the power of the Vagabond)... for more than $100 less. This morning I got to try it out at the beach at sunrise. I set it up to see how it would work balancing the light so both the model and the sun/clouds would be exposed properly. They were shot with Canon 135mm f/2L and Canon 50mm f/1.8 lenses, and one B800 flash bounced from a 60" umbrella. Here they are: [ATTACH=full]1221044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221045[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221046[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221047[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221048[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221049[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221051[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221052[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221053[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221054[/ATTACH] Blurred because I don't want them HQ on the internetz, but you get the idea. [ATTACH=full]1221055[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221056[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1221057[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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