This is the third day and I have decided before the start of the day that I will do a street shot around the magazine shop at commercial road (its the busiest road in Ooty, especially during summer). So I went out and on the way two local friends of mine saw me and accopanied me for the shoot. They were highly enthusiastic and Shatir wanted to click for me when he heard me saying that I am going to take my own photo. Then I explained that it has to be a self-portrait and has to be clicked my me only.
So then I went to the location and setup the camera and the Nikon SB600 with the cactus V2 receiver. We tried few shots woth preset manual focusing, however, I wanted some more light so setup my tiny suntax (local 15 year year old Indian brand and I bought it for some $10 has a GN of 30 ft.) flash with an optical slave (because the cactus doesn't work with that) with a yellow gel for sort of dimension lighting. I got the final shot after almost 10-12 trials.
Here's the strobist info:Lens Nikkor 50mm f/2.8, 1/50 sec., ISO-400, Nikon SB600 @ 1/32 power and 85mm zoom with a 2X2 inch soft box on it, 5 ft. from away from the subject, camera left. Suntax (unfortunately it has only one power mode) with a 3 layer of duffusion (to cut down the light) and yellow gel 3 ft. away from camera right.
