![]() ![]() This is referred to as butterfly lighting because the shape of the shadow beneath the nose resembles a butterfly, and it was a favorite type of lighting for movie stars of the 40s and 50s. The undiffused portable flash was held above her face to create that pronounced shadow under the nose. This is the least expensive way to use two or more portable flashes wirelessly. In fact, the on-camera unit could fire numerous flashes if all the remote flash units had an optical slave attached. In other words, you can place one flash on the camera, and with an optical slave attached to another both units will fire. A major advantage of using this system is that the on-camera flash unit doesn’t have to be electronically compatible with the off-camera flash. The Wein optical slave, HS-XL (#1) is an example ( When another flash (such as an on-camera flash) fires, the optical slave detects that the burst of light is different than the constant ambient light, and it triggers the remote flash that it is attached to. All of this can be done with portable flash units, and all you need to make this work is the ability to fire one or more flashes wirelessly.Īn optical slave is a small and relatively inexpensive device that slips onto the base of the flash unit. You can use multiple lights, side lighting, back lighting, and set up a lighting ratio similar to what can be done in the studio. Whichever method you choose, the purpose in using a remote flash is to be more creative with light. An on-camera flash can trigger another flash. A radio signal (also from a transmitter) fires a slave unit.Ĥ. An infrared beam emitted from a transmitter can do the job.ģ. A brief burst of light from a flash triggers an optical slave.Ģ. Slaved flash units are fired in one of four ways.ġ. Today it’s such a pleasure to be able to fire remote flash units wirelessly. In addition, the long cord was always getting in the way. These cords were never reliable, and too often the flash wouldn’t fire because of a bad connection. For many years the only way to fire an off-camera flash was to connect it to the camera with a PC cord. You can watch these clips and more in the video below.When a flash unit is used as a remote or a “slave,” it is not connected to the camera and it is fired remotely by another flash or by a wireless trigger. As they say, the possibilities are endless. Sensing vibration, it fired the shutter the moment the basketball hit the backboard or rim-thereby capturing the moment of peak action.Īnother video clip demonstrated a camera firing the instant a girl screamed, using the remote's sound-sensing capabilities. Example: These young Turks showed me videos of a smartphone perched on a pole supporting a basketball hoop that sent a signal wirelessly to the MIOPS Mobile attached to the camera. It taps into the myriad capabilities of your smartphone and becomes a sensing device to fire your camera remotely. The versatile and less-expensive new unit was just announced at Photokina and will be available shortly for only $79. It can combine any or all of these functions in creative ways and can be used as a regular intervalometer. The new model builds upon the success of the original, and can trigger your camera using sound, vibration, distance, and time intervals (as in time lapse). ![]() MIOPS Mobile was developed by the two cool guys from Istanbul who created the crowd-funded MIOPS Smart ($199 retail) two years ago. Enter MIOPS Mobile, a versatile device that not only triggers your camera, but can also help determine when your photos are taken. Shutterbug fanatics (myself included) are enchanted by the possibilities of remote- control triggers, especially those that take the concept to a new level. ![]()
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