At Vistaphotography I’m not as good as some of the folks out there who are using flashes (otherwise know as strobes) off camera as can be seen on Strobist.com. The first shot was to show you the horrendous light we had at 6:30PM.

This was with a Nikon and no flash and the second was with the Pocket wizards on a Nikon flash (1/16th power) at camera left and a canon flash to camera right and it was twice as far away at 1/4 power with a white umbrella.

Next I set up my Mini TT1 and Flex TT5 along with a Nikon flash on a manual pocket wizard. All were set between 1/16 and 1/2 power depending on distance and light modifier.
It took a bit to get a pleasing balance between the three flashes and you can see that as we started to go beyond the camera/flash sync speed you can see the curtain shadow start to show up. but even in a few of them where we shot at a shutter speed of 320 the curtain wasn’t so bad that if you crop in, it’s either gone or negligible.

The last shot was where Jay and I stopped and I think we were finally getting close to what I was looking for.

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