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[BLS439]

Well, I'm waiting to sell my Santa Cruz Blur LT (if you want one send me a PM :thumbsup: ) to buy the rest of the kit to build my new Santa Cruz Nomad. Rather than go to CCCX (where I know Scott has got things under control) I hiked out into the woods above Santa Cruz to get some DH shots.

I decided to play with slow shutter speeds towards the end of the shoot to see what I could get.

Here are a couple from today:

[jorgemonkey]

Nice!

I like the spotlight effect of #1, it looks good.

Oh you can join me out at CCCX, They love having photogs there. Plus I could get some off camera flash tips from you as well hehe

[Jimmy B]

On these are you using first curtain sync? wouldn't second curtain sync be more appealing?
Just my input.
Jimmy B.

[BLS439]

Scott - Thanks! I don't really know how much knowledge I could really give, but I'll do my best ;)

Jimmy - Yes, but you can't use 2nd curtain sync with PW's unless you have MultiMax's. I only have one Multimax and a few Plus/Plus II's. From what I've read you need to have all MM's to get 2nd curtain sync to work.

[Jimmy B]

Thanks Dave. I am on a quest to get a " No Spoke" photo.
Jimmy

[jorgemonkey]

Just a thought on a slow sync off camera flash (sorry if this derails the thread for a second).

I'm brainstorming having one flash on camera set to manual, rear curtain sync. Put it on low power, just enough to fire & trigger a 2nd flash off camera in manual mode. I think I'm gonna have to go test it to see if it works.

[BLS439]

I got mixed results in the past with something like that. I had a 580EX on camera and used pocket wizards trigger via PC port to trigger the remotes. I didn't get results that I liked, but I also didn't play with it that long.