Sorry for the lack of updates but between business and life I've been flat out staying alive, but i must say props to squarespace for the Android app, and Australia Post for the delivery.

Being about an hour walk/ride up and a pretty serious ride down I tried to pack light, one body, one lens, one flash, a set of triggers and a TTL cable in a small pack. Instead of taking a light stand or my little joby tripod I relied on bungy straps as I figgured that there would always be a tree somewhere and I even used my bike as a stand at one point.

Really happy with the shots and I've got a few more ideas for next time.

Even though the sun was still high I thought I might have enough flash power compete with the sun quite early in the afternoon, the results were far better than I expected.

Strobist: 2x Kf36 flashes, full power camera right on 6 foot stands, full power, no modifer.

I really have to credit this photo to Zane Caldera, as I asked him to do this same trick 4 times until I got my timing and settings just right, after I showed him the preview on the back of the camera I don't think he minded at all.

Again I persisted with my 'rider in the landscape' theme this time I managed to get back a lot further and hide the flashes quite well, I really wanted to run a soft box to soften the light be couldn't do it with limited space between the take off and landing, I think I'm getting closer to the idea in my head but I don't think location is quite suited for it. 

Strobist:1x kf36 slight behind rider full power 1x kf36 slight infront of rider 1/2 power, no modifers. 

All up I'm really happy with the day, I got a bunch more 'good' shots but these really stood out.

strobist: canon 580 exII half power camera right, no modifer.

In retrospect I was a bit too close to the rider and the flash was too close to the camera but I'm getting closer to the idea in my head.

tried a new technique with the flash, basically i had it on a camera bracket fired with a ettl cable, flash set to ttl +2ev, the camera locked at 1/250 and what ever f-stop would get me about -1 ev ambient.

I think i got some great results, and i was quite suprised at how far the flash carrier considering the ambient light.

I Used to heavely be into the BMX and Mountain Bike scene and I was really excited to have the chance to shoot some of our top local riders.

I had a few ideas of what I wanted to achive before I set up, and that was I wanted to get a few classic magazine type shots, bright-sharp-big. As well as some "riders in the landscape" type photos>

In the end I got pretty close to both but didn't really nail either, but I'm more than happy with the results.

Thanks to Beau and Zane for a great shoot.

Beau - No hander

Zane - MotoWhip

Iso 100 1/250 f14

This first shot was just one of many tests to try and get the levels sorted, it work quite well but in the end I had to change the setup totally as I couldn't control the ambient light to 'stop' the action in some later shots. this was done with a cactus KF36 and a Cactus V4 trigger, I had to revert to a TTL cable and hi-speed sync on a canon 580exii to get closer to what I wanted.

The creek was up so the boys got their flip on.

I really needed a faster shutter speed here, the sync of 1/250th really couldn't capture the action without motion blur and it was too bright for the flash to freeze the action.

Strobist:

Cactus KF36 full power camera right

Cactus v4 trigger

1/250 f5 iso125

To set the scene we had had alot of rain so we made the most out of a bad situation by wakboarding along the storm drains while being towed by a car.

Strobist: 

Cactus KF36 full power camera right in housing

Cactus V4 triggers

1/250 f5.6 iso 250

A quick note: this photo was removed from the strobist group on flickr because I didn't state the location of the flash, even though you can see the housing in the shot. 

This non-strobist shot from the same session ended up winning a local news paper 'wet season fun' contest.