learning to crawl (with a strobe)

Having had some success with product photography, I've decided to extend my ability with a strobe to personal photos.

It's something I've been playing with on and off for some time, but thanks to strobist.com it's become more of a passion. On the weekend I decided to do some tinkering bother in street photography and at an event. In this case I wired up one of my old Minolta flash units (an 'Auto 360PX') to my Pentax DSLR. Here are the results.

On the street:

I used the strobe as fill light while metering for the small portion of the photo that's lit by sunlight

Compare the above image with this one, in which no strobe was used.

same but with no strobe (or child)

The following were shot using a strobe either on or off the camera, but certainly with the settings at something other than my onboard camera's full blast white-out.

this jazz bassist is a world-class competitive sports fisherman

Friends toasting my wife's singing career

shot with the strobe at arm's length

Interesting lighting, too bad about the thumb (thanks Mari!)

on-board strobe