Shooting a #whatsinyourbag for Nikon

“Strobist” style lighting for another Nikon social media post. This time shooting on the D810 (not pictured) using 3 x Nikon SB-700 strobes. 

Strobist, is using off camera flash and shooting with small battery operated strobes. It’s my preferred way to light as its fast, easy and looks great. No need to mess around with heavy floor packs and cables.

I love the features of the Nikon SB-700 strobes. The menu system is easy to use and intuitive. I set them to slave mode and then put another flash on the D810 to trigger them via optical slave. They were set to pretty low power. 1/32 if I recall correctly. There were another two strobes on the left and right side, just to give a little edge lighting in the edges of the equipment.

We also tried a version with the flashes pointed up but it doesn’t look quite as cool.

The Gear

24 AA Batteries (rechargable NiMH Eneloop Pro’s) and a total of 6 strobes used. (3 in the shot, 1 on camera for optical slave syncing, two on the sides for edge lights). Oh, and one extra for the unused alternate version since the lights were now facing up and away from the middle.

Also pictured is ‪the Nikon D7200‬ camera body and a couple of Nikon prime lenses, my photo bag, a light stand, some colour correction gels, cleaning cloth and a lens pen.

See the image in context on Facebook at Nikon Asia here