Nikons CLS system is something to die for.
There is SB800 and SB600 in the frame on both sides of the stage. The place is so dark that four sb800 could easily overpower the available darkness and light the whole stage with 1/16 power or even less.
Clearly the 2 flashes (in the pic) aren’t high enough to light the whole stage evenly and they are crossed. So what are they doing? Providing a very low power fill light and clearing up some some colors/shadows on front of stage – nothing more. The flashes are aimed almost to each other to feather the beam.
Both flashes are set to 1/128 power and trigered with the popup. Which is nice concidering the distance: I was on the very top row. Popup is ok but has a draw back. Its a freaking popup! Even with minimum power setting (–) it does not recycle quick enough for quick bursts. It takes from 0.5-1 seconds to recycle. And if you fire two very quickly you have to wait longer.
Good thing about this setup was that I could just kill the popup and I would not have to change any other settings in the camera. I’ll just loose some detail in the frame.
