Dramatic Lighting!

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

My package contained a manual flash with optical trigger capabilities. This meant that I could finally put my flash wherever I wanted, such as just to my left. I could make the background not get lit, and have a very shadowy picture! Also, there was a remote, so I could take pictures of myself easily!
Very exciting.

Pentax K-x - 1/180 sec - f/32 - ISO 200 - ~82mm

Pop up flash (still needed to do optical triggering) and a YN460 to my left. Pop up flash was set to -2 exposure (trying to kill it as much as possible).

Used GIMP to adjust curves to kill the little bit of background and to clone out a hair on the lens. Scaled and watermarked.


I accidentally ordered an extra, lesser flash unit instead of a flash cable, so it'll be a while before I get real freedom, but this is exciting.