{"id":1935,"date":"2014-03-03T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:03:48","slug":"the-photography-show-nec-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"The Photography Show – NEC Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the annual trip to a photography show is now complete (this year it changed from Focus to ‘The Photography Show’) – actually surprised how busy it was for a weekday. For a change I wasn’t overly bothered about kit, nor did I have any intention of spending large amounts of cash.<\/p>\n

The show itself was much the same as Focus on Imaging – which isn’t a bad thing to be honest, though the main difference was a couple of stages where every hour or so Pro togs would talk about their specific genre of photography. I did sit through a wedding show which mainly comprised of the professionalism of the photographer – which was a better talk than it initially sounded. <\/p>\n

First up for me, was the Canon stand – like a moth to a flame, or me to an Apple Store I’m drawn towards the Canon Stand – probably some blinded fanboy loyalty, or most likely cos I own a chunk of the Canon Eos system. My only temptation camera wise at present is the EF135mm f\/2 L – so I’d thought i’d have a look. The results aren’t anything spectacular (it’s indoors at the NEC!) but I had a brief play…..<\/p>\n

Tube things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Eos 1DX and 24-70MkII<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Some bloke looking at things, colour down to me not playing with white balance and leaving it on auto – possibly the NEC lights might be an issue also<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So there you go, Canon sorted. The one stand I wanted to check out was the Bessel Lighting stand – mainly as I wanted to speak to Tony Rabin<\/a> who was demonstrating their kit. I’ve met Tony before at YPS<\/a> and I do plan to visit his studio for Lighting and Model shoots. After a brief chat I finally got round to purchasing a remote trigger. I do own the Canon ST-E2 remote trigger, which is fine – but limited (distance) so I bought a \u00a319.99 remote and \u00a39.99 tripod\/hotshot adapter. One trick with this is set the connected flash up as a master and reset as slaves and they all work fine. With this adapter you loose the E-TTL capability and have to use manual, but for studio settings that’s normal anyway. I’m tempted to eBay the ST-E2 and spend the cash on some soft box stuff from Bessel.<\/p>\n

Light Things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The picture above is just a test of the setup. The first EX580 MkII is connected to the hotshot adapter and the remote receiver is connected. This flash is setup as a master (and for space reasons I’ve stuck the front in a roll of packing tape). The other EX580 MkII and EX430 Mk1 are setup as slaves. The primary flash triggers the other two automatically. The 580 MkII’s were set with a flash rating of 1\/128th and 430 was set to 1\/64th (both at their respective lowest flash setting).<\/p>\n

It seems to do the job well enough \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the annual trip to a photography show is now complete (this year it changed from Focus to ‘The Photography Show’) – actually surprised how busy it was for a weekday. For a change I wasn’t overly bothered about kit, nor did I have any intention of spending large amounts of cash. The show itself … <\/p>\n

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