Moab Man 2015 Photo Collection

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Moab Man

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Never tried to pull off a panoramic using my Tokina 11-16mm. Really impressed with how Photoshop pulled everything together considering the distortion that happens with ultra ultra wide angles.

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Moab Man

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Here is my entry for the Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk. Our walk was a bit of a bust. The lead planned for us to meet at an old rebuilt fort in a park. However, a hippie group already had the entire park reserved for just their group. Really left us kind of screwed, but here is what I salvaged for the day.

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Today was a bit of an expensive day. However, before I get to the expensive part, I'm currently healing from a knee surgery. Back to the expensive day... So I'm doing a shoot when my soft box goes over in the wind. Of course I try to run and catch it which doesn't go well because of my knee surgery. Add to it I'm running downhill which is so much harder on the knee. Normally I would have covered the distance and caught it with not problem. Today... nope! The box went down and my trigger and flash hit the rocks. The impact snapped the foot of my flash. I have contacted Nissin to see if I can get a replacement foot since it's an easy enough fix with just four screws (to which I suspect the part will just not be available so that I can fix my flash). Which made this a really expensive day because I have another shoot tomorrow and needed to replace this flash.

Maybe it was blessing because this was an older flash I got a long time ago, but I used this opportunity to upgrade. Comparing the new version of my old model, the Nikon SB900, and the Nissin Di866 Mark II I ended up with the Di866. It was a tad under half the price, 13% more power, and unlike the model I broke today, it has a metal hot shoe foot.

Getting it home to play with it, and learn how to use it before tomorrow, really made me happy. It's the first flash I've had that the TTL actually works as it should and does a darn good job at it. Another beautiful little feature, I haven't used it yet to know how it works in the real world, is the sub-flash. This sub-flash fires when you bounce the light off the ceiling which can cause under chin/nose/eye socket shadows. From what I have read it's just a little bit extra of soft light to take care of and soften those shadows.

Still not happy about breaking my other flash, but this is a great upgrade and I can assure you I will never screw up and not weight down my softbox again no matter how calm it is as it was today right up until it wasn't.

Nissin Digital Flash: Di866 MARK II Nomenclature & Specfication

This video shows how that little sub-flash helps out at 1:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmRmyzVNsk

Time to go ice the knee some more and go to bed. Brutal day - $500 that I didn't want to spend and injuring my surgery knee.
 
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Kevin H

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Moab Man said:
Today was a bit of an expensive day. However, before I get to the expensive part, I'm currently healing from a knee surgery. Back to the expensive day... So I'm doing a shoot when my soft box goes over in the wind. Of course I try to run and catch it which doesn't go well because of my knee surgery. Add to it I'm running downhill which is so much harder on the knee. Normally I would have covered the distance and caught it with not problem. Today... nope! The box went down and my trigger and flash hit the rocks. The impact snapped the foot of my flash. I have contacted Nissin to see if I can get a replacement foot since it's an easy enough fix with just four screws (to which I suspect the part will just not be available so that I can fix my flash). Which made this a really expensive day because I have another shoot tomorrow and needed to replace this flash.

Maybe it was blessing because this was an older flash I got a long time ago, but I used this opportunity to upgrade. Comparing the new version of my old model, the Nikon SB900, and the Nissin Di866 Mark II I ended up with the Di866. It was a tad under half the price, 13% more power, and unlike the model I broke today, it has a metal hot shoe foot.

Getting it home to play with it, and learn how to use it before tomorrow, really made me happy. It's the first flash I've had that the TTL actually works as it should and does a darn good job at it. Another beautiful little feature, I haven't used it yet to know how it works in the real world, is the sub-flash. This sub-flash fires when you bounce the light off the ceiling which can cause under chin/nose/eye socket shadows. From what I have read it's just a little bit extra of soft light to take care of and soften those shadows.

Still not happy about breaking my other flash, but this is a great upgrade and I can assure you I will never screw up and not weight down my softbox again no matter how calm it is as it was today right up until it wasn't.

Nissin Digital Flash: Di866 MARK II Nomenclature & Specfication

This video shows how that little sub-flash helps out at 1:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmRmyzVNsk

Time to go ice the knee some more and go to bed. Brutal day - $500 that I didn't want to spend and injuring my surgery knee.
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Ouch how is the Knee doing?? I know I need both mine done some time
 
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