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That means a lot, honestly. I will be running it again on Saturday at 5:00 if you want interested in going! Though not sure if I am going to be filming it or not lol. Only the top skiing photo and the Bee and Puppycat cosplayer (the one with the plushy) are the only strobbed shots there. I will have to post more of my strobbed, but to be completely honest, flash has been the single most difficult area of photography for me to understand. First off, I hardly ever shoot with the flash on camera. If I do, I am certainly bouncing it off of a ceiling or a wall. I am not going to make any assumptions on how much you know about photography, so sorry if some of this is a little basic. The softness of your light is directly proportional to the size of the light source in relation to the subject. Essentially, if I want really soft flattering light, I need to figure out how can I make the light bigger. Bouncing off a wall (assuming the wall isn't colored) can help a ton. The down side of this is that it uses a ton of power, especially if the walls or ceiling are higher or far away. You can use a bulbous diffuser right on the flash (like the Gary Fong Lightsphere). This will give you a marginal increase in softness (and still sometimes a bit of an unflattering look if the light is on camera). The absolute best thing you can do is get your light off of camera and with a modifier. Shoot through umbrellas are probably the cheapest way of getting this done, but I really love the look of a soft box (I use my 43" apollo orb soft box as my main modifier). When you take a photo with a flash right on top of the camera, you are lighting someone, but you are taking away so many of those shadows this give depth and contrast. Shooting off camera flash can add really add to the depth of an image. I have been looking for a great solution for what to buy in terms of off camera flashes for a while and am on my to my third set - 3 yonguo YN560 IV's with a YN560 TX transmitter, all for around $300 with great remote manual controls, these things seems great so far. All of that said, I shoot more often with natural light. Most of the time I am walking around a con I have my 35mm f/1.4 lens on with the aperture set to max (1.4), the shutter speed between 1/60 and 1/200, and then I adjust the ISO to whatever gets me in that range. I don't know what kind of camera or lenses you are shooting, that would make it a lot easier to recommend things. Be warned though - the lights in the dealers hall at Acen flicker at about 1/200th so never let your camera get above that speed when you are in there. Since I Acen is coming up in a week (!!!), here's a shot from last year using a super ghetto rigged flash setup.

Thanks a ton everyone. Just finished putting together this part of the panel and it helped a ton.

I don't know what I just voted for...

Have some more sports this time around

Yup, I have certainly shot video with them. If you want to see me being a goon on rollerblades, this was shot entirely on those two cameras: I also shot all the female sections in this video with my 6D As far as Acen goes....Maybe? xD That requires me to bring a tripod and actually recording it....and makes me wonder if I really want to show my dumb panel to the interwebs lololol I shall show you the way! Seriously though, any questions you have, hit me up and I would be more than happy to help you out. And thanks of course!

For sure! I have 2 cameras, a Canon 6D and a Canon 7D. The 7D has since become my backup camera (though the very first shot in this is with the 7D). The 7D is pretty much an all around better camera in most aspects, but the 6D is a full frame camera and I just love the depth of field I can get with it. I have 4 lens that I use regularly as well: Sigma 35mm f/1.4 (I don't think I could live without this lens) Canon 70-200m f/2.8 IS II (my huge white telephoto) Canon 16-35mm f/4 IS (wide angle) Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye (for when I want to go incredibly wide)

Time for a couple more:

Thanks! But I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. If I posted some of my shots from like 5 years ago I think you see that it's pretty possible. Just a shit ton of time... Also, this reminds me that I need to post more in this thread.

I am someone who has found Mejibray to be largely forgettable (like literally, I can't recall a single one of their songs), but man Eiki is going to stick with me. Sadly, not for any of the right reasons. Those high pitched vocals are some of the worst I have ever heard outside of karaoke.

Should I feel bad that I loved the shit out of Recitation? XD Super excited about this release

Welcome to the forum! I hope you enjoy your time here and if you have any questions, feel free to ask anyone with a red or a blue name. Also, early girugamesh is best girugamesh.

If envy every comes to the midwest I think I can die happy lol.

Nagoya Kei and Post Rock? Just my kind of person! While I haven't had the luck to see any of the agoya Kei bands you have down, I'm stoked as I will get to see both mono and toe this summer. I hope you enjoy your time here on the forum!

Welcome to the forum! Hope you enjoy your time here!

Glad to see a new lurker transition over to member status!<br /><br />Hope you continue to enjoy your time here and if you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask anyone with a red or blue name.

Perhaps it is because I have listened to it so much that I have become desensitized to it, but Gauze's production doesn't bother me at all.

Stay on topic please. And as a reminder to everyone, you are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to be an ass.

Welcome to the forum! Hope you enjoy your time here!

spot the paw-prints on my dusty mirror Hyura, you are painfully cute. XD I had some extra time in my works photostudio, so I played around for a couple of minutes

Lmao at all of you. I just like to keep things classy. Honestly there is nothing wrong with posters, but your place will look so much classier if you get them framed.

Pics or it didn't happen

Not my bedroom and this is a couple months old now (from around Christmas), but here is my living room: