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[zancro]

I photographed a boat on a trailer... on land. Whooptie freakin do you say? Yeah... I agree. However... the company needed some current photos of the boat for immediate use in brochures and advertising. I photographed the boat at their factory. Within a day or so after I did these photos it started all that snowing and blowing that we had in

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[orangecat62]

NICE... how were you lighting the cabin photos, it looks like their is an octagon soft box in one window reflection. was it from a small box with a camera flash in it or a studio light? Other source?

R-)

[zancro]

I had a combination of things going on. Since they will be cutting out the windows for the art, work it didn't matter if you could see the actual lights through the windows... or if there are reflections IN the glass... so that made it a lot easier huh? I put a shoot through umbrella on each side of the boat with a speedlight (Canon 580EX) in each. This would be impossible on the water right? Well... certainly more of a challenge. I was trying to avoid draggin out the BIG lights... and since it was overcast... I didn't think I'd need them. I had one speedlight up under (in the bow) of the boat to light up the bed area (with stofen type modifier [shampoo bottle]) and then one speedlight (with stofen type modifier) just off camera where ever was handy in the small area of the cabin to fill. So most of the light source was coming through the windows from the umbrella'd flashes... which could look somewhat normal depending on how they cut it out and what they replace 'outside the windows' in the ads. All triggered with ebay/china/ghetto

[orangecat62]

Awesome man! So the ebay/china/ghetto wireless units actually work I take it! What kind of distance can you get between you and your flashes outside?

[zancro]

I think the 16 channel ones work pretty well... especially for the price. I have not tried any great distance, but I do know that for 99 percent of what I've needed them for they work really well. Occasionally... depending on the location... I'll get a few ghost fires... where it goes off for no particular reason... if it starts bothering me I just change channels on everything. For what I have spent I could only have bought about 1 pocket wizard. I have about 9 receivers and 2 transmitters that I have purchased over the last year and a half or so. When I move from these... I may go with Radio Poppers so I can control the remote flash from one close to the camera. (slightly lazy yes) even though the master/slave relationship really eats batteries. (and I have some external battery packs!) I think I am one of the lucky ones with these cheap wireless triggers... if you read about them on flickr discussion groups there are quite varied experiences. I have thought about adding the antennae mod... but really... they work pretty well as is

[atokon]

I know about cdory boats but had never seen a cat version up this close. most internet ad pics for cdory and http://arimaboats.com are so-so. both are northwest built down near renton south hyway 99 area.

those are nice strong views. Will you be doing any of them in water for action shots?

[zancro]

Wow... I took a look at that website... it looks like all those photos were taken in the 60's with outdated color shifted film! Bleh! I know C-Dory already has quite a few good "Action" photos, so I don't know if I'll get to do more. I'd love to though! Fly me to Alaska for a week of shooting!

[quietdeath]

If I ever get a chance to make a cross country trip I want to stop by your place and have you teach me some tricks. I am a very light hobbiest when it comes to photography, so I would never be any competition, but I just love how you make the most normal things look so grand. Thanks for sharing your work.