To infinity, and beyond!

Oh. Boy.

My first strobist purchase is here. I ordered the Cactus V2 triggers from Gadget Infinity and they arrived today. I was pleasantly surprised because I didn't think they'd be here until the end of the week at the earliest. I had just ordered them either Wednesday or Thursday of last week, and Monday was a holiday and with them coming all the way from Hong Kong...well, I'm certainly not complaining :)

I was a little concerned when I opened up the envelope and the first thing I pull out looks like this:
At least the other box looked fine.














So, I took them out of the package, put the batteries in, hooked them up to my camera and flash, crossed my fingers, and made my first ever off-camera flash picture:
Yep, that's it. What a difference having your flash off-camera makes!
And there, folks, is the reason I'm spending more money on flashes. The 420EX fired at full power right at the wall since there's no manual control whatsoever. Glad to see that the triggers work (at least for now) and that I've saved $500 vs going with the PW's. My second strobist pic wasn't much better:



Oh well. I guess I have nowhere to go but up :)
Can't wait until tomorrow when the B&H package arrives....