Trigger Me This

Just got my Cactus wireless flash trigger today and I'm having some fun with the off camera flash. Except for the fact that I'm too lazy to set up the flash on my tripod and end up holding the flash with my left hand and my camera in my right. It's kind of tiring, especially when I decided to try some macro shots with my very long and heavy lens, which is a little hard to hold steady with one hand.

Anyways, just by being able to take the flash off the top of the camera I'm able to get some much nicer lighting and control where the shadows get placed, you know, somewhere other than right behind the subject.

I also learned that the sync speed is definitely 1/200 on my flash. Any faster and I got the "curtain" effect where the picture gets a black bar on the right side because the flash didn't have enough time to light the whole scene. Good to know I guess.

So, here's some photos of my little patio flowers...