Last week Elaine tore the ligaments in her left foot so has not been able to hit the shops at all and has been forced to stay at home with her feet  up. Over the space of that week she did her first Asda shop online.

Last night, with no prompting Elaine had the laptop out and was shopping unaided !

The coup de grace was the next question:

How to I get the BBC iPlayer on the Wii to work again !

Cactus Wireless Triggers

Basically you have a transmitter that goes into the hotshoe of your camera and you have a reciever that goes into the hotshoe of the flash unit. This means that you can trigger your flash via a radio signal!

My flash has an IR sensor it it so you can set it to flash whenever it sees another flash but this means there has to be line of sight between your camera flash and the remote flash. Using this method you can “hide” your flash and have light coming from all sorts of directions.

Typically flash coming from any direction other than your camera will improve a portrait !

Here I had my flashgun sitting behind Elaine’s feet pointing up towards her face.

If you are interested in off camera flash have a look at this site: Strobist and their corresponding Flickr Group.