Comments on: Smoke, flash, and sun – unique portraits

By: Joseph Adams

Joseph Adams — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:28:24 +0000

I’ve been looking at using smoke for a while now, however never had the guts:)

can I ask 2 very silly questions:

1. where do you purchase your smoke grenades (second part are they legal in the UK?)
2. I always thought that the smoke would act to bounce any light shot through it – is this the case? Did you have to shoot at an angle?

Thanks

Joe

By: damien

damien — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:49:49 +0000

PW uses radio and only sends a go command to the flash in sync with the shutter. The flash is used on manual or in automatic mode. Range: 100m

STE2 uses IR and sends both a go and stop command thus enabling TTL. Range: 5m

By: Nicky Chadwick

Nicky Chadwick — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:44:25 +0000

Hi Damien

I read this article and was inspired to give it a go – always been a bit wary of photographing men as I am obviously working alone, however, my other half has offered to be body guard at the shoots and general bag carrier which is great.
Hopefully it will go well as although we don’t have a beach in Leeds, we do have some great locations down by the canal which should work well !

Nicky