Update: Flower Series on MM

Hey,

So I ended up tossing the first Flower Series photo on MM.  So if you click on this link it will send you to my portfolio.  There you will have to switch the "work safe" thing to "off" since it is a fairly risky photo.  But it will be the most risky of the bunch I am sure.

Hope you enjoy,

Tom

Update: Flower Series

Hey,

I thought I would like to share some exciting news.  I have started getting photos for my Flower Series.  So this series will be a group of photos which will have one photo from each different shoot I do with a flower theme.  This way I have only one excellent photo from each shoot which forces me to plan one stellar shot.  So hopefully by the end of it I will have a good sized series of amazing photos.  I will upload the photos on here and Flickr once I have a good enough group of photos to call it a series because currently it is a Flower Photo, and not series.  I may post them to Model Mayhem in my portfolio there sooner than my Blog and Flickr.  If I do jump the gun and add them to MM I will let everyone know and add a link to it from here.  So once I have a couple of these I will post them up.  So stay posted for those.

Also my SB-900 is going quite well and I am quite impressed with it.

Thanks for following,

Tom

Photo Shoot: [J]

Hey,

So I got the photos edited and I think they look great.  Hope you enjoy them and stay posted for more photo shoots to come!  Also you can check out more of these and my other photos on my Flickr.

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D

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Review: Initial Review of SB-900

Review: Initial Review of SB-900


Well, where do I begin.   

Thoughts and Opinions:

This is one beast of a flash, and I am pumped to have it now.  From my first impressions of taking the flash out of the case I loved it's design.  In the case itself the diffuser and gel holder is in the bottom zippered area while the flash is in the velcro flapped case.  Most might toss this case straight into the garbage however I have a full Nanuk 925 hardcase so I am going to keep it. I will also keep the flash in the case it came in and carry it in my lowe pro sling back.  I will also keep my other lighting gear in there as well (since my case is full).  

So now the flash.  It's big, it's bad and it's huge.  First off, one reason I got this flash was the on and off (as well as remote and master) switch.  This switch is much easier to use and offers much better functionality.  The SB-600 isn't that great in terms of turning it on and off as well as to the remote mode.  The zoom function is also easy to use as well as changing through the modes.  The modes are easy to understand so far and it is not so different from the SB-600.

Usage:

All I have done is just played around with the settings so far however I have a couple of shoots planned so it will get it's work cut out for it.

Pros:

From my initial thoughts,

- Ease of use

- Power

- Functionality

Cons:

- Large (However that is for power I am guessing.  Also the head has to be large to allow for a 200mm zoom)

- Heavy (but a workout is never terrible)

(I am being optimistic but I will let you know after a day of shooting with it)

Sample Images:

None at this time.

Conclusions: 

I am looking forwards to using this flash in the near future for sure.  And I will let you know what I conclude after I use the flash.

Update: Sneak Peak [J]

Hey,

So I just did a shoot yesterday and I am just editing the photos now so I thought I would toss up a sneak peak for my followers on my blog and Facebook.  I did this shoot just before I got my SB-900 in the mail so this is potentially my last shoot with a single SB-600.  Well I hope you enjoy the sneak peak and stay posted for the rest of the photos!

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D