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Cross-lighting

I've had a set of Cactus V4s for a while now and while I was initially stoked to be free of cables, I didn't end up using them much due to their unreliability and my sheer laziness.

So I finally decided to get out and try my hand at cross-lighting using the setting sun as one light source and a 430EX on a tripod, camera right. I dragged my significant other into it as both cat and dog would probably have turned tail and Bosley, the modelling teddy bear, just isn't tall enough. Needless to say, I think she did a great job, but she'd call me biased.

The pics didn't turn out that great. I don't have any brollies, which I think would help get that wrap-around effect that I'm aiming for, so I had to make do. The V4s frustrated me to no end. I was barely 5-10m away from my flash and it would quite frequently not fire, or worse, fire after the shutter had closed. I ended up dropping my shutter speed down to give it a larger time-frame to fire, but strangely enough I would sometimes get a different exposure even though I hadn't changed any settings.

On the upside, I've put through an order for a 580EX II, which should allow me to fall back to Canon's wireless E-TTL system.

Oh and just for fun, here's also some monkeys.