Wireless Toys – 049/365, originally uploaded by JMaz Photo.

My new toy showed up in the mail today! If you don’t recognize them, these are a transmitter and receiver that make up a . I’ve been working more and more with off-camera flash lately but feeling pretty limited by the three foot cable I’ve been using. So with these in place I will now be able to set up the flash on a stand and move wherever I want with the camera. Now I really need to make some kind of a soft-box for the strobe…

These aren’t the fanciest things in the world, and the construction less then top-end, but for $20 shipped I think I am going to be very happy. Even with an occasional miss-fire, if I am so unlucky, I think it will still be opening many new doors for me. They don’t support the fancy automatic flash metering that the camera provides, but I’ve been learning to use the manual flash settings anyway. Part of my intention on this p365 journey is to really advance my lighting skills, and this is just one more step closer to that goal. I never had to worry much about these things when I was shooting landscapes.

Shot with the 50mm lens, on 1/64 (at the end of a cable) bounced off the walls of the light box, several room lights overhead. (In hindsight I should have switched with different lens to avoid the shallow field of focus. That’s nice for an artsy touch, but from a “product” perspective the product itself should be sharp throughout.)