Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/60 sec @ f/1.8, ISO 200, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)  Tonight I decided to shoot another idea I have had for the last few weeks.  The concept was light emitting from a closed door.  In my head, I had envisioned a shot seen in many movies where a bright light shines through a closed door as if there is another world on the other side.

I set the shot up by hooking the 580EX II strobe and my XSi to the PocketWizards, gelling the strobe blue, and then putting the soup cup omnibounce I made on Sunday on top.  I set the flash in the bathroom and closed the door just about all the way.  I tested my flash using the button on the PocketWizard mounted in my hot shoe and was ready to go.

Or so I thought.  I took a few shots without looking at the LCD.  I had a suspicion that something was not right.  In fact, it was…sort off.  The strobe was not firing in the bathroom.  After double checking all the PocketWizard settings on both ends and the flash itself, I was convinced the problem had to do with the radio interference output by the 580EX II.  I have read about this exact problem in numerous reviews of the latest PocketWizards but had never experienced it myself since I always shot with a 430EX II. 

The solution to my problem was to swap out the flash in the bathroom for the 430EX II currently mounted on the light stand.  This process only took a couple of minutes and then I was on my way shooting with a working remote flash.