If you are nearing the end of your rope...




Climb HIGHER!

I did some math, and between the multiple rolls of film I am having to develop for class, my brothers wedding, and the several people who want to have me take "just a few shots" that I don't feel like I should be charging it works out that the camera I've had my eye on ever since I played with it in Staples will pay for itself by May.  We decided that we could use a portion of tax money on it.

So, I just ordered it *gulp*

It cost $10 less than our old beater car. 

Anyone have a paper bag I can breath into?

Kaede




Charlet










On the 10th I'll be ordering some lights so I'll be able to play even more!  Yeah!  I was planning on learning how to work the lights and testing them with my digital P&S so that I'm not wasting a lot of film.  I didn't think of not being able to sync with it so now I think I'm going to have to just use the slaves as practice and throw the monolight in later.

I really struggle with catchlights in natural lighting so it will be nice to have more control.

Also, we are hopefully (after a rough estimate) getting more back on our taxes than we were planning on so I'll have some $ that I can put towards the rest of my stuff.

I've been debating on which kind of photography lights to buy.  I *want* these -- one of the 400 units and an 800 (for a keylight and a fill light)  I also want a hotshoe flash like this to use outdoors as a fill flash.

I found a thread where it describes how I can use the hotshoe flash for normal studio type lighting, just pulling it off of the camera, putting it on a transmitter and a pole and attatching a softbox or a softliter.

However, I'm still not sure what to do.  By the time I bought the speedlite flash and the accessories to make it work I'd be out about $400 (which I don't have yet BTW) and the Bee's that I want are $480 (I don't know if I'd need any/many extra's to get the  Bee's to work though) and I'd have 2. 

I'm leaning towards the speedlite, just not fully convinced yet.  *sigh*