Off-camera Flash (1 Viewer)

[spiderwood]

Hi George,

Following on from your comments on the ball-heads and Wimberley etc...do you have any views or experience of using either the Kirk of Wimberley flash brackets? I've begun to get fed up of Red-eye/Steel eye on birds and mammal shots when using flash in low Winter light.

Any views would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[George McCarthy]

Yes Nick I use flash quite a lot usually to add a catchlight or to lift the image on a dull day. I (almost) always use the flash off camera to avoid the red eye effect although when using long lenses and tele-flash you have to be very careful. If the problem of adding illustrative pics within the text of my replies is ever resolved I will show you how and when it can go wrong.

I use the Kirk flash bracket and find it fantastic although you have to be using a Kirk lens plate to attach it. What makes it so good is that you can vary the position of the flash to suit the occasion/lens and it remains in that position when changing from landscape to portrait mode.

I use two types of teleflash. The cheap and convenient Better Beamer and the original and more expensive Metz which I use with Metz 60CT4's.

Thanks for the question.

George