If I moved up even with the strobe or if the rear of it was facing away from the camera, the on camera flash wouldnt trigger it. Made moving around pretty hard. Pretty much had to keep the strobe somewhat a head of me so it would trigger. But I do have the hot shoe adapter now so I am able to more or less freely move and not worry about the strobe not firing.

Did you have the little pop up flash or a traditional separate unit. The separate unit aimed at the ceiling should fire the strobe.

pop up flash. This strobe is my first venture into lighting outside of using hot lamps so I never ended up with a separate unit

Ordered a pair of Canon 600EX Rt flashes. They are radio controlled and can do hi speed sync. The first set were taken with the same set up as show. The prints are all straight out of camera but with some black point and minor exposure correction then converted to jpegs. Kept one cool and the others warmer.
All shots were 1/160, ISO 100 f3.2 with 85mm prime.

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On the second set same set up but with mom blocking the sun.

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Playing with gels. Although not shown in the pull back, I had a yellow gel in the BG light on the right and an orange on the left in the first photo. Second shot is with purple on the right and blue on the left. It's the first time I've ever used gels. It took me a bit to figure out you really have to stop down the light so you don't blow out the color.

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Great job on the gels. What color bkg did you start with.

Originally Posted by Hackbone Great job on the gels. What color bkg did you start with.

White vinyl BG. The one in the pullback.

Shit. I forgot the pullback for the shots above:

Just before bath time I became inspired so I brought up some lights from the studio into the living room.

Very effective, can we see a shot straight out of camera?

Originally Posted by Hackbone Very effective, can we see a shot straight out of camera?

Sure! Here you go.

That was a great idea with great ingenuity. Don't forget you can even use you box as a bkg as it goes off.

Originally Posted by KMpics

Curious: what are the two speedlights on the table lighting?

Originally Posted by divamum Curious: what are the two speedlights on the table lighting?

They were in the pumpkin... woops forgot to mention that! oh and one of them stopped firing for whatever reason and the pumpkin wasn't lit near as much as it was when I set up the shot :(

Slowly getting back into this after surgery.

All were taken with this setup. At times both flashes used in direct sunlight and in the shade dropped back to one flash. Some in manual mode and some in ETTL.

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Charles:

Your work is fantastic & hopefully, one day I'll be half as good as you! Below are a few from a shoot this past Saturday. At first, I had both of my 580's set to ETTL mode, but all I could hear was Charles standing over my left shoulder saying, "Get out of automatic - you can do son!!!" I looked back, smiled & with some hesitation, switched my speedlites to Manual. The first set (with pooch) were shot in ETTL & at f8. The second set was shot at f8 1/80 to allow more ambient (highlights brought down in post). The third set (bridge) were shot at f11 1/100. Comments & Critique are welcomed!!!! Thanks :)

Travis, as they say, " You did Good". I find it hard to expose for light and dark skin and you did a surperb job. This work is very pleasing and extremely sellable. Manual is so much easier to adjust for. Add a vignette and see how that looks. Your a fast study, congrats.

cool stuff - man , thanks for sharing the setup

BEAUTIFUL!!