A Saturday a long time ago, I helped Macdude with his shoot for the Bantus Capoeira group. He used the trusty Minolta 24mm F2.8 with his Sony A100 and iISO hotshoe to ISO hotshoe and Cactus V2 remote triggers to trigger two cheap flashes pointed at brollies.

Why’d I mention it, if nothing from that appears in this entry? Because I love 24mm lenses, and flash hotshoe adapters. 😀

And so, I used strobe mode on my Sony HVL-F56AM flash mounted on my Sony A100. Note that some of the shots are panned to avoid the strobed actions of the performers from overlaying each other and getting overexposed. Also, if the performer was facing the right, I’d align him to the left of the frame, and shoot just as he is about to perform an action… while panning quickly so he’d be at the right of the frame.

18mm F8 1/4s ISO400 with flash on strobe mode, 9 Hertz, 3 times, 1/8th power (if I remember correctly.)

18mm F8 1/4s ISO400 with flash on strobe mode, 9 Hertz, 3 times, 1/8th power (if I remember correctly.)

18mm F6.3 1/4s ISO400 with flash on strobe mode, 9 Hertz, 3 times, 1/8th power (if I remember correctly.)

8mm fisheye F4 1/20s ISO800 with direct flash.

18mm F3.5 1/30s ISO1600 with direct flash.

Oh by the way they’re always performing on Saturday nights in the Telawi area of Jalan Bangsar. Go catch them, but try not to flash them unless you had permission.