Dancehall Birthday Party

javierplumey

My wife's uncle turned 70 this weekend and I tried to get some shots. Here were my limitations:

1. Lighting was yuck! Florescents and half of them were flickering. Then when the dancing started...no lights at all.
2. I have a D40 and only an SB-400 flash.
3. I had my kid with me so it was hard to get free for too many shots.

To get around the lighting issue and to get some zoom shots using my 55-200 lense, I used a little invention of mine that allows me to bounce the flash a little further and also to so vertical bounce on the SB-400. I'll post pics of my little invention soon, it comes handy.

C&C welcome!





The 70 year old uncle:


Here I am using the zoom lense, standing about 20 feet away, using my vertical bounce flasher for the SB-400:





Another example of the vertical bounce, this time with the kiit 18-55 focusing in the near dark (no overhead lights turned on):




Thanks for looking. I hope the pics aren't too big!

Greensquared

I think you did very well, especially given the circumstances. I use the "Better Bounce Card" myself in quite a few circumstances where the light is less than ideal.

BriShay

Looks like you go some good shots!

javierplumey

Greensquared wrote:

I think you did very well, especially given the circumstances. I use the "Better Bounce Card" myself in quite a few circumstances where the light is less than ideal.

I've seen the BBC, very cool. It just won't work with the SB-400. I just got home from Baltimore, but tomorrow I'll make a post about my gadget.

Scott_Quier

javierplumey wrote:

I've seen the BBC, very cool. It just won't work with the SB-400. I just got home from Baltimore, but tomorrow I'll make a post about my gadget.

I'm a Canon shooter, so I didn't know anything about the SB-400 'til I went looking. I found this page (about 2/3 the way down the page that shows that a modified BBC should work quite well with this flash. Not trying to get in your face about this --- just trying to be helpful.

Agnieszka

I love the expressions in #1! Very nicely captured!

joshhuntnm

javierplumey wrote:

I've seen the BBC, very cool. It just won't work with the SB-400. I just got home from Baltimore, but tomorrow I'll make a post about my gadget.

I use a piece of paper and a little scotch tape. Works great.