My first Flash

January 7, 2010 in Equipment

I got my first off-camera flash – a Nikon SB-600 – for christmas. I also got a small, portable softbox – the Lumiquest SoftBox III. You can see both attached to a Joby Gorillapod SLR in the picture on the right.

The reason I bought a flash is to get more into lighting and lighting techniques. A small flash seemed to be the cheapest way to get started. I also want to start shooting portraits in 2010, so I bought a small softbox to create (guess what?) soft light.

The SB-600 with Nikon’s CLS has remote flash capabilities built-in so I think I’ll play around with all kinds of off-camera lighting, bouncing, reflecting and all that stuff.

My girlfriend’s cat already had to serve a lot