When is wireless trigger range is important?

AceCo55

I have been looking at wireless triggers and receivers. No matter what the brand, nearly all emphasize their long range. I have looked at a number of videos that specifically test the range of the triggers. I am curious to know under what scenarios a photographer would need to fire a flash that is say 100m away from the camera. What kind of photo would they be looking to capture?
I can understand sports photographers having a remote camera and flash next to each other and firing the camera from some distance away ... but when would you want the flash/camera difference to be up to 100m away?
I have thought maybe highlighting a tree well into the background of a shot?
I can understand the advantages of being able to fire strobes that do not have a line of sight and are some distance away ... but there seems to be a selling point focus on huge distances that the triggers can operate over.
Thanks for enlightening me.

cbbr

I'm not sure that for most, the range is as important as the fact that they are powerful enough to never miss. That said, I have fired mine at some distance outside in a graveyard and upstairs in a house while shooting from outside across the street.

AceCo55

Thanks for that - that makes sense and I can see more possibilities.

Art Scott

Wildlife photography.... When the wildlife is extremely skiddish....you may need to be
several yards away in another blind and putting that signal thru brush and leaves, so
the more power makes sure the signal gets to its destination with out a problem every time.

angevin1

AceCo55 wrote: »

I have been looking at wireless triggers and receivers. No matter what the brand, nearly all emphasize their long range. I have looked at a number of videos that specifically test the range of the triggers. I am curious to know under what scenarios a photographer would need to fire a flash that is say 100m away from the camera. What kind of photo would they be looking to capture?
I can understand sports photographers having a remote camera and flash next to each other and firing the camera from some distance away ... but when would you want the flash/camera difference to be up to 100m away?
I have thought maybe highlighting a tree well into the background of a shot?
I can understand the advantages of being able to fire strobes that do not have a line of sight and are some distance away ... but there seems to be a selling point focus on huge distances that the triggers can operate over.
Thanks for enlightening me.

Surely you've seen the photos of the Photog communicating via Walky-Talky with his assistant and Model, some distance away? I doubt it was a hundred meter's, but then they were using radios to talk.

AceCo55

Art Scott wrote: »

Wildlife photography.... When the wildlife is extremely skiddish....you may need to be
several yards away in another blind and putting that signal thru brush and leaves, so
the more power makes sure the signal gets to its destination with out a problem every time.

So most photographers would not in fact be taking photos with such a huge separation of flash and camera but really ensuring that their signal "gets through" and is reliable. Fair enough.