Beginning series of useful tricks you as the photographer can use in the studio environment, our star-of-the-show Toma Kostygina showcases 5 ways of troubleshooting your light synchronization issues.
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If your lights are not firing, make sure your strobes are plugged in, turned on, and your receiver and your trigger are on the same channel.
If for some reason your trigger cannot make a tight connection with your hot shoe, try using this guy. This is a PC connection, and this is a 2.5 millimeter jack that goes right into the trigger, and the PC connection goes straight into your camera.
If your camera doesn’t have a PC connection, use a PC-to-hot-shoe adapter. It upgrades your camera shoe with PC connector.
If, for some reason, your trigger or your receiver do not work and you cannot secure them, just get rid of them. We don’t need them. Use this wonderful long cord that has 3.5 millimeter jack that goes straight into the sync slot on your light, and this PC connection goes straight into your camera or into your hot-shoe-to-PC adapter. The length of the cord varies but extends up to several feet, providing freedom of movement on set for photographer. the cord goes directly into the strobe head and into the camera PC connector.
Let’s say you are on location, and you have no adapters, you have no cords, and your trigger and receiver are broken.
Do you have a built-in flash? Congratulations, because with a built-in flash, you can synchronize Alien Bees to fire or any strobe that can work as an optical slave. What I usually do, I go New Menu, Camera Settings, or Custom Setting Menu, Bracketing/flash,
Flash control for built-in flash, Menu, and I set the power of the built-in flash to the minimum, so it’s gonna be bright enough to fire the strobe but it’s not gonna affect my exposure that much.
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