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Hacking the Sigma EF-500 DG Super strobe : Sync port – part 1

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Recently I’ve been starting to learn more about flash photography compliments of The Strobist.
Then I bought a set of cheap ebay wireless flash triggers to alow me to trigger the flash remotely, but with the Sigma EF-500 DG Super flash, that was not possible.

UPDATE: Recently purchased a set set of Yongnuo RF- 602 2.4 Ghz wireless triggers from ebay (they’re quite cheap), and they work flawlessly with the Sigma flash, without any modifications. If you want a sync port, try the method below, but if all you want is to trigger the Sigma flash, buying a set of the RF-602 triggers is by far the simplest way of doing it.

Most other flashes out there can easily be triggered by shorting out the two main terminals on the hot-show. But not on this sigma. So I had to find another way to trigger the flash manually, which led to the decision to hack my flash to get a sync port.

What follows is my own documentation of what I did to my unit.I will not be responsible if you accidentally destroy your flash, or worse, hurt yourself: capacitors in the flash can hold their charge for a long time waiting for someone to poke them the wrong way.
WARNING: This hack will FOR SURE void your warranty. This hack also involves permanently modifying your unit. This hack involves a little soldering.
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Looking for ideas for a wedding photography website

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– Free web design templates found here at www.oswd.com
– Photography gallery that doesn’t use flash HERE
– Site I like the look of for a wedding photography site. HERE
– Also interesting. How to make a gallery using scriptaculous. HERE
– A photographer’s website that does more then just weddings. HERE

– Decided to use SmoothGallery 2.0 for my online photograhy site . Details can be found HERE
I will use it in conjuntion with the “How to make your own gallery” php script to allow for dynamic editing (adding/deleting) of images.
– How to integrate the SmoothGallery 2.0 into a WordPress blog (will need this for my photo blog) HERE

Looking for ideas for wedding websites. Looking at this site of Karri North, found some interesting photos. Not all photos are razor sharp. I guess it’s the emotion captured that’s more important then focus?. Not all photos are buttery smooth (lots of shots with plenty of grain/noise).
Also, at first I didn’t quite like the fact that the gallery spanned a new full screen window, but after viewing 20-40 images, the large images really work.

pictures of baby (ideas)

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– On the large highway (devoid of cars) have baby be sitting on a little put car. The view encompases the great emptyness as well as the baby + toy.
– Baby in the tub. With a red wash cloth draped on her back like a cape… The shot is from behind, and the caption reads “even surepheroes need to bathe”
DONE
– Baby bathing in the kitchen sink. Two sinks. One sink has baby, the other a towering mound of unwashed pots and pans.
– Baby drawing in chock on the sidewalk E=MC2. Picture of her working away at the 2.