The Salton Sea is an amazing place to shoot images. From abandoned homes and hotels to rotting cars and dead fish you can easily spend a whole weekend shooting there. If you search …

If you hadn’t heard about it before, Photo Project 24 is a collaborative project between myself and Chris Diset. The goal was to travel about 1,500 miles in 24 hours while stopping once an hour …

I’m going to try something new here. Usually I talk about some technique and build up to getting a shot with that technique. In this series I am going to show you a picture I …

Lately I have become addicted to using more and more speedlites on my shoots in order to have complete control of the lighting that I want to achieve. Products like my wireless flash triggers and …

When you are learning how to use lighting it is best to start off with a single light source and really learn how to master what you can get with that. Your next best friend …

Sometimes you just need more light and one speedlite isn’t enough. While playing around with the Westcott Speedliting Kit I figured out some interesting ways of attaching multiple lights to the system. Using this setup, …

I always love hearing from people to find out what things people are struggling with and one of the most common things is how to get your exposure dialed in quickly when using manual flash. …

Welcome to BlackBelt Lighting products here at Camera Dojo. These videos were created specifically for you to help you make the most out of your equipment.

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Just got my flash triggers today and did some test …

Before we get too far into this, we need to have a brief discussion of what a prime lens is. There are two basic types of lenses (yes, there are more, but they are far …

Last time we looked at tilting the camera and getting a little more angle on the subject. This time lets look at shooting from an angle that isn’t normal. Often changing to a …

Here is a quick tip for you that can make a big difference in your shots, try adding a little angle to your shots when you take them. The following two images show …

One thing that seems to baffle a lot of new photographers is understanding the term “stop” as it pertains to a measurement of light. We see this word used over and over with regards to shutter speed, aperture, film speed, filters, lighting, and other ways that light is used. You may hear a phrase like “you should expose one side of face 1-2 stops under the lit side of the face and expose the background 1 stop under the main subject”. For many people that’s about like asking them to solve a complex calculus problem.