So there I was shooting “homeboys” from rock-group Fliplike. Pretty funny and educating experience.

My setup contained one old Norma flash unit (220V powered) and another old National PE flash unit. I used 1 second shutter speed and triggered the flashes by hand – Norma was triggered by a DIY trigger out of a pen and the National was triggered by Dörrs slave adapter. All the light measuring was on “try and fail” basis.

So, as my first multi-flash experience I noticed that it isn’t all that easy. I got a lot of shots where fill light was not enough and guys ended up having hard shadows around eyes or some other guys hand shadow on their face or dogs ear shadow just between the eyes. The truth is, most of that I noticed at home and that’s a fail. A lot got “Photoshopped away” but you can still discover a lot of basic errors by browsing the full set linked below.

All and all I got way smarter and fortunately it seems that guys themselves are OK with the images.

Now, there is one more thing about this band – their latest video which was also done with near to no equipment and no significant expenses. For example as lightsource they had 5 construction lights (yes, those “great” warm light “heatblasters”) and for the fog/rain they used good old gardeners poison squirt. It was done purely on enthusiasm and fanatism. Might just be the best music video produced in Estonia. Respect! Enough said, have a look @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tbkPnZIxxk

Image: Imm as an air-guitar hero

Equipment: Canon EOS 400D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 USM, Norma & National PE flashes, Dörr slave adapter and DIY pen trigger.

Full set @ http://www.tiblu.com/img/fliplike2009/

PS!The truth about not posting medium format images for a while is that I messed up a few films of pure stupidity and I don’t want to talk about it. Thanks for understanding.