{"id":759,"date":"2007-10-07T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=759"},"modified":"2011-08-22T20:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:06:32","slug":"photos-speedlight-in-a-softbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-speedlight-in-a-softbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Speedlight in a Softbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"758\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-speedlight-in-a-softbox\/w_bvong_studio73jpg\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_studio73.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"260,542\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"w_bvong_studio73.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_studio73.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-758\" title=\"w_bvong_studio73.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_studio73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana;\">Learned a thing or two in Miami and got a chance to try it out with my own setup.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks to\u00a0others on the web, it&#8217;s\u00a0quite easy to shoot using a\u00a0remote speedlight (a flash)\u00a0in a softbox. Now granted, these shots will never compete for any covers anytime soon, but I think it&#8217;s so cool that the technology can be so clean and simple. (No wires, AA batteries, all you need&#8211;well that and a good lens)\u00a0 One Nikon SB-800 in a Westcott Apollo softbox and the other SB-800 on a tripod, both triggered\u00a0wirelessly from the camera.\u00a0 I can only imagine how much this would have costed back in the day when Minolta ruled the camera world. \ud83d\ude0e<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learned a thing or two in Miami and got a chance to try it out with my own setup.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks to\u00a0others on the web, it&#8217;s\u00a0quite easy to shoot using a\u00a0remote speedlight (a flash)\u00a0in a softbox. Now granted, these shots will never compete for any covers anytime soon, but I think it&#8217;s so cool that the technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37,287,170,43,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-nikon","9":"tag-photos","10":"tag-portraits","11":"tag-strobist","12":"tag-westcott-apollo","14":"post-with-thumbnail","15":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/0004.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-cf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1844,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-wild-bills\/","url_meta":{"origin":759,"position":0},"title":"Photos: Wild Bill&#8217;s","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"November 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Notes: SB-800 Speedlight in a softbox, CLS triggered. 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