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Jun 22 2012 11:05am
Hi all!
I have to take photos of barrel racing tonight and it's indoors.... ofc I will need a flash...
I plan on renting one cause there is no way I can afford a flash that can perform that good at the moment.
What I need help with... how should I set the flash.. on camera? On a tripod with a cable?
This is an exemple of what another photographer did at this same place:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150913727468363&set=a.10150913726698363.435759.17526408362&type=3&theater

Please help as I have no experience with flash photography...
Thanks in advance!

This post was edited by MotherOfTwo on Jun 22 2012 11:09am
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Jun 22 2012 01:51pm
Quote (MotherOfTwo @ Jun 23 2012 03:05am)
Hi all!
I have to take photos of barrel racing tonight and it's indoors.... ofc I will need a flash...
I plan on renting one cause there is no way I can afford a flash that can perform that good at the moment.
What I need help with... how should I set the flash.. on camera? On a tripod with a cable?
This is an exemple of what another photographer did at this same place:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150913727468363&set=a.10150913726698363.435759.17526408362&type=3&theater

Please help as I have no experience with flash photography...
Thanks in advance!




You might not need flash. Do you know what the ambient lighting will be like? I'd imagine it would be strong flood lighting and bright enough to shoot fast shutter.

If so, I wouldn't bother with flash because it will kill the atmosphere of the show.
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Jun 22 2012 02:24pm
there isnt much we could suggest without seeing it all
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how did the shoot go?
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Quote (lithfkn @ 22 Jun 2012 15:51)
You might not need flash. Do you know what the ambient lighting will be like? I'd imagine it would be strong flood lighting and bright enough to shoot fast shutter.

If so, I wouldn't bother with flash because it will kill the atmosphere of the show.


Ok I'm back..
I couldn't tell you more because I had no idea of the lighting and it was very far for me to drive just to see.. so I had to imagine the worst scenario... which it was....
It was not like a figure skating show or a rock show where you have spot lights.... it was in a dark indoor arena..
I ended up renting a single flash that I put on tripod and used it as a slave to my oncamera flash...
It was good when it worked.....
At first I had my camera flash set to minimum, just to get the other flash firing.. then I had to reset the settings and didn'T know how to set that, so on the last day my camera flash was shooting strong, and so did the slave flash, but at least when the slave didn't fire, my camera flash could cover it some...
I had to take only one chosen shot for each go, at one single barrel... if my timing was off, too bad for me....
It was helllllllll!!! But on 3 days, the last day was the best cause I knew how to work around the problems finally...
Will post something soon..
Thanks! :hug:
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Quote (MotherOfTwo @ 25 Jun 2012 03:40)
Ok I'm back..
I couldn't tell you more because I had no idea of the lighting and it was very far for me to drive just to see.. so I had to imagine the worst scenario... which it was....
It was not like a figure skating show or a rock show where you have spot lights.... it was in a dark indoor arena..
I ended up renting a single flash that I put on tripod and used it as a slave to my oncamera flash...
It was good when it worked.....
At first I had my camera flash set to minimum, just to get the other flash firing.. then I had to reset the settings and didn'T know how to set that, so on the last day my camera flash was shooting strong, and so did the slave flash, but at least when the slave didn't fire, my camera flash could cover it some...
I had to take only one chosen shot for each go, at one single barrel... if my timing was off, too bad for me....
It was helllllllll!!! But on 3 days, the last day was the best cause I knew how to work around the problems finally...
Will post something soon..
Thanks! :hug:


cool, and pot a pic of the arena / your set up if you have
maybe we could give you more advice for next time
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