Comments on: Day 2 of Lighting Gear Week

By: Brian Williams

Brian Williams — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:39:15 +0000

Hey Scott. I just found your website and books a couple of months ago and they have been huge for me as we are just starting to get into photography seriously.

I have purchased the “Scott Kelby Location Kit” and was wondering if you have an article, video, etc. that would give some starting points to using this set up for portrait and wedding type shots. For instance, when to use one light and a reflector, when to use both lights, maybe some layouts of where to set them up around your subject. Just some starting points. Thanks for all you do to help us out!

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By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:52:35 +0000

Scott, “If you’re a Nikon user and your DSLR has a pop-up flash, you’ll be able use it to wirelessly operate both flash units.” isn’t quite true. I do this all the time on my D70, but the less expensive Nikons (D40, D50), can’t be the master flash — they need a hot shoe flash to trigger remote flashes.

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Jason D. Moore Photography » Blog Archive » P&P Weekly: #67 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:22:51 +0000

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By: James

James — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:50:13 +0000

Scott,

This is brilliant stuff. I shoot only landscapes and it really helps someone like me that has no adea about artifical lightting.

Thanks again.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:46:20 +0000

As an old commercial shooter I am amazed at the amount of information that comes our way thru your blog and NAPP. Your persistence and energy is boundless. This information is just what many of my would be assistants could have used over and over again. I am a big fan of the “pocket wizards” as the Canon transmitter has to have line of site to the “red” receiver on the EX580. Anyway you are all really amazing and I don’t know how you make it on 3 hrs. sleep. You can’t possibly get more than that and do what you do. Great sidekicks too. Now if you could get Jack Davis and Dewitt Jones to do some classes at Kelby training I would be in heaven.
Mahalo
Steve

By: Jan Winther

Jan Winther — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:35:01 +0000

Scott, this is way cool… thanks for doing this.

ehm..ehm.. could you perhaps put all these goodies in a pdf file sometime after fridays episode of Lighting Gear week, and make it available for download just as you did with your Lightroom book, as a bonus chapter to your Digital Photography II book?

That would be even “way’er” cool.

Regards,
Jan

By: Ade

Ade — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Scott,

Great series here. I’ve got a quick request.

Since you mentioned you” be addressing studio lighting tomorrow, I hope you include a write-up on your TD5 spiderlites continuous lighting set-up with the daylight flourescent bulbs, and how you use it.

I have a couple of TD5s and I’m not sure I’m using them as efficiently as I could be.

I’m also particularly interested in how you measure light for a manual exposure, using your sekonic light meter, as you describe in version 2 of the digital photography book.

regards,

-Ade

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:11:58 +0000

Hi Torstein and Dan:
The kit actually does come with two adapters so the Impact stands will fit. They’re small, so they’re easy to miss, but they are included with the kit.

Thanks,

-Scott

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:06:30 +0000

That’s scary… Can anyone confirm that the adapter screws are indeed missing from the package? I would hate to order it and not be able to assemble… Thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:04:09 +0000

Hi Scott,

Quick question: I am about to make an order for some lighting stuff from B&H, but I can’t seem to find a charger on the site for the 2CR5 battery pack that goes in the CANON ST-E2 transmitter. Sorry to bother you with such a petty question, but I figured you would know right away!

THANKS!

keep chargin’
matt

By: Torstein Ihle

Torstein Ihle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:39:16 +0000

Its only one problem with ““The Scott Kelby Location Kit””. The clamps from Manfrotto wont fit to the tripods from Impact in the way Scott is mounting it on the moviefile from B&H-photo. You need some adapter screws. I bought mine from the german company “Hama”. It took me a long time to figure this out….

Scott please ask B&H-photo to include the adapter screws in the set. That will save a lot of people a lot of trouble… I was really pissed when couldnt mount the set the way you did… I nearly gave up on the project…

Four inexpensive small adapter-screws …and no I´m happy with the set

Regards from Norway

Torstein