{"id":7424,"date":"2012-02-02T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2012-02-02T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T16:34:25","slug":"shooting-with-an-ils-improvised-light-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/shooting-with-an-ils-improvised-light-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting With an ILS (Improvised Light Stand)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7427\" title=\"_DSC7375\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7375.jpg 466w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7375-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7375-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who needs a light stand when you have a backpack?<\/p>\n<p>Strobist gear here is about as simple as you can get: Camera, SB-800 Speedlight that&#8217;s being triggered from the on board pop-up flash on my Nikon D700, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001HAER88\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=danhbaisadvph-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001HAER88\">Lumiquest Softbox III<\/a>.\u00a0Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> going fast with light.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what you <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> see here is all the times my flash wouldn&#8217;t fire because the brim of my bike helmet kept pushing the pop-up flash down just enough to shut off the circuit. I tried holding the camera away from my face a little bit, however after multiple failed attempts, and much laughter from my model, who happened to be a fellow photographer, I finally discovered a workable solution<\/p>\n<p>I took my helmet off.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just have to improvise.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7425\" title=\"_DSC7412\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7412.jpg 466w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7412-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7412-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7426\" title=\"_DSC7428\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7428.jpg 700w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7428-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7428-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7428-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7428\" title=\"_DSC7443\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7443.jpg 700w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7443-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7443-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC7443-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs a light stand when you have a backpack? Strobist gear here is about as simple as you can get: Camera, SB-800 Speedlight that&#8217;s being triggered from the on board pop-up flash on my Nikon D700, and a Lumiquest Softbox III.\u00a0Now that&#8217;s going fast with light. Of course, what you don&#8217;t see here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[14,61,524,236,324,20,89,149,200,328,103],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}