Well I recently did a shoot for people with the theme of The Mafia. They were Italian and wanted to do a Mafia themed photo shoot. I had just taken possession of my new Pocketwizard Plus X units and a 580ex speedlite as a second strobist which I was happy about.


Little did I know the amount of moving, repositioning and manipulating I would have to do in this shoot. The shoot took place in a workshop with all the wood and scaffolding you could imagine lying around. The Pocketwizards performed flawlessly except for one user error where the PC sync cord came out because I did not insert it properly. This resulted in a few misfires.


All in all I learnt the following.

1. Scout your scene/site before the actual shoot if at...

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