another self portrait

It seems like every darn project I do has a self-portrait component, so here's another. With any luck, I'll be able to go another three years without doing this again!

CowboyStudio Remote Flash Trigger: Review

At the, uh, middle of this semester, I finally got around to selling my old textbooks from semesters past back to Amazon. With a couple hundred dollars in Amazon credit, I had some serious shopping to do.

I'd been reading David Hobby's Strobist blog for a while, and I figured it was time to give off-camera flash a shot. I knew I didn't need to spend hundreds of dollars on a set of PocketWizards, but maybe if there was something a little bit cheaper I could justify the expense.

There was: this. Cowboy Studio has a range of really cheap remote flashes. For less than a Canon lens hood (damnit, Canon, why don't they come with the lens?!), I bought a set.