Scouting the light and location of an upcoming shoot meant firing off some self portraits. Took a while to get the focus nailed down because of the very thin depth of field I was shooting (85mm @ f/1.6) and trying to stand in the spot you saw through the viewfinder is easier said than done.  All in all I’m liking what I found as it was pretty much what I though it would be.

Pocket Wizard product placement…

Hope we get another CA fire enhanced sunset for the shoot…

Maybe next time I’ll even smile

Of note, to shoot these self portraits I’m using 2 or 3 Pocket Wizard radio remote triggers.  One Plus II mounted to the cameras hot shoe, one Plus II connected to my flash unit (when I’m using one) and one Multi Max in my hand which I’m using to trigger everything else.   When adding the flash be sure to run the unit that controls the flash one channel up from the camera.  For me this meant channel 2 as the camera was channel 1.  This sets the flash to trigger in relay mode which accounts for the delay between me pressing the trigger and the camera actually tripping the shutter.  If you ran everything on channel 1 the flash would fire and be gone before the shutter opened.  With the Pocket Wizards achieving a perfect relay is as simple as selecting channel 2.