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Client has a concept for an exterior shot of a window of their home office. Color temp inside is set to tungsten so strobes are gelled with a CTO to warm things up. Exterior would be lit at blue hour to emphasize color contrast. Now here's the problem. I've got a ledge at a parking garage about 100 feet away with perfect perspective. My current triggers (usually reliable at 3x the distance) can't seem to penetrate the window glass to fire off the strobes on the inside. Since there's a chasm between the ledge where I'm shooting and the window of the office building, there's no place to locate a repeater. Would an optical slave work any better? Rent a more powerful set of radio triggers? Forget using strobes and light it with continuous lights? Oct 28 17 12:29 pm Link A Wein Ultra slave (optical) will more then likely work. That damn thing is very sensitive and at quite a distance. I remember long ago we did a commercial shoot in front of a private home. Slaved packs with the Wein Ultras. The strobes kept going off even though we weren't shooting. The damn flashing strobe on top of a school bus down the street was firing them off!! To this day I have never seen or used an optical slave that was that good. Yes, it this one has a household type prong. They make others with phone jacks. But they also can bu used with a regular sync cord. You can see the sync plug in the front there. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ … _3000.html  Oct 28 17 12:41 pm Link Masciandaro Photography wrote: if the the window or nearby window can open, run a sync cord outside and hide the receiver on the exterior of the building. yes, the wein ultra slave will work up to 600 ft or more. it's so sensitive that line-of-sight is not required. once i hid a speedlight on lowest power under a black blanket and it still triggered the silly thing. Oct 29 17 09:21 am Link Thanks guys... exactly what I was looking for. Oct 30 17 10:08 am Link I am not familiar with that device so I cannot speak on it but I have tried other infrared triggers that worked very bad in some outdoor conditions. You can get a pretty silly long range out of a cheap Yognuo trigger. Perhaps setting other triggers out of site along the path to the lights you want to have go off and you could basically run a repeater system to trigger your lights from the vantage spot. Say a fresh trigger every 100 feet until it reaches. one behind the mail box, another behind the yard gnome ect. 30 bucks a pair. Oct 31 17 11:40 pm Link Mike Collins wrote: I m pretty sure this was a typo...they Don't make ones with phone jacks...... Nov 01 17 06:00 am Link Mike Collins wrote: Charlie Schmidt wrote: not a typo, more specifically - 1/4" phone jack (also 1/4" monoplug) Nov 01 17 07:00 am Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: Mike Collins wrote: not a typo, more specifically - 1/4" phone jack (also 1/4" monoplug) Not a "JACK" ...but a phono "plug" Nov 01 17 07:29 am Link Mike Collins wrote: Charlie Schmidt wrote: Not to mention these Nov 01 17 07:35 am Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: Charlie Schmidt wrote: that is somewhat petty, simply referring to the original post Mike Collins wrote: currently, more common for photographers to call them sync connectors in 1/4" and 1/8" (3.5mm). at any rates, it does not refer to a RJ-11 connector. Nov 01 17 07:40 am Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: Charlie Schmidt wrote: Leonard Gee Photography wrote: WOAH - not trying to be petty -- was trying to be accurate - no trying to offend anyone...serious thought it was a typo...i did not understand there was confusion on you end about jacks and plugs... it is possible that someone could get the wrong idea and search for a Phone Jack?!?! Nov 01 17 08:27 am Link LMAO! Tomato, tamoto. I guess it's just a carry over from the days head"phones" used the larger size plug so we/I called it a head..."phone" jack. Nov 01 17 11:57 am Link Mike Collins wrote: that plug actually came from the "Phono"graph...and all the guys making crystal radios...interesting how that same, low tech. invention has lasted all these years.... traditionally, if it sticks out it is considered male, and a plug (plugs up the hole).... If you stick something in it it is female and a jack....... this may not be politically correct anymore..... Nov 01 17 01:20 pm Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: The "Wheel" was invented in 3500BC and is still in use today. The age of a device does not necessarily influence its obsolescence. Nov 17 17 06:00 am Link damn I haven't seen those wein slaves in quite a while. Tiger's eyes also are great. I used to use extension cords to get them up to the windows then put some gaffers and black wrap on it and make it face your other strobes. Is it still called a slave? Tiger's eye? Black wrap? I was feeling offended by the thought of being called a mini male plug somehow. haha. Nov 17 17 06:31 am Link Mike Collins wrote: If you keep reading you'll see that it's called a "phone plug" because it was used on telephone switchboards (one of the other posters included a photograph). If you ever watch black and white movies you may catch a glimpse of an operator connecting an incoming call to a particular extension by plugging a phone plug into a socket. Yes, it got reused on headphone (and electric guitars) because it was a robust connector and cheaply available (because they made a lot of them!), but the name is not derived from headphones. Nov 19 17 11:56 am Link |
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