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Mastering Your Flash 101 – Learning to Love eTTL/iTTL

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For many people the thought of taking their flash off of eTTL/iTTL mode is as intimidating as BASE jumping off a bridge, this is because they haven’t even fully mastered these automatic settings yet. …

Building your own snoot

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What is a snoot? Simply put, a snoot is a tubular structure that is used to limit the throw of a light source to create a narrow beam of light. While commercial snoots are actually pretty affordable, from $14 to about $20, so why would we want to make our own? Because we know what we want and because for $20 we can make a dozen or more experimental ones and end up with a handful that we could use in different situations. So guys. go break into the wife’s scrapbooking supplies and get ready to make your own customized flash snoot.

Lighting Basics – Using a single light source

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Along with dissecting different photo shoots like we have done in the past, we are now beginning a new “Lighting Basics” series that will start with a single light source and work up through multiple …

Review: Multiblitz Profilux Monolight

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Ok, let ‘s start this off with a few disclaimers here. First, hell is not freezing over, pigs are not flying, and the world is not coming to an end, although many of you may …

Getting Flash Exposure Fast

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In this episode of our Friday Photo Tips I answer a common question about how to get flash exposure dialed in quickly when using manual strobes. This will work whether you are using manual speedlights …

Three Things to Know When Buying Your Lighting Essentials

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Lighting can affect a shot, too much or less of it is a matter of delivering the perfect shot. Every photographer would stop relying on its camera’s built – in flash and start discovering and …

Color Correction with Gels

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This week I show you how to match flash color with ambient color using colored gels on your flash. Kerry goes on to show you how to use the same technique to trick a scene into …

Fotodiox Introduces WonderBurst NEX and WonderBurst HSS8000 Radio Flash Triggers

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Fotodiok has jumped into the flash market big time with two new products, the WonderBurst NEX and WonderBurst HS8000. The WonderBurst NEX is the first dedicated flash system for Sony NEX series cameras. The WonderBurst …

Directional Lighting with On-Camera Flash

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Buuuut Kerrrry..If you use your flash ON your camera (not your pop-up flash) you can’t get directional lighting, its going to look horrible. Well, yeah, and that’s why so many people don’t like to …

Getting Manual Flash Exposure Quickly

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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. …

How to Calculate Depth of Field

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A big stumbling block for many new camera users is how to figure out how much depth of field a particular image will have it in given the focal length of the lens, the aperture used and the distance to the subject. Trust me on this, trying to do the algebra to figure it out is not something most people want to try to do in their heads. In this article we will cover all of the math involved and then make it real easy with an Excel spreadsheet and some links to some free applications to help you out.

Simple One-Light Directional Portrait Lighting

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Lighting can often be one of the most intimidating things to learn but it doesn’t need to be that way. I think the problem is that many people get intimidated thinking they need tons …

Review: Sticky Filters Gel Kit

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I love using gels on my speedlites, from basic color correction to faking a blue sky to creating colored backgrounds, gels can really come in handy. The downside is finding a way to put the …

Mastering Your Flash 101 – High Speed Sync

One of my favorite features of speedlites is High Speed Sync. This feature allows you to work with speedlites way past your camera’s normal sync speed (1/160 – 1/250 depending on camera). By shooting …

5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 5

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This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.
The final installment of the off-camera flash series is here!  For the past five weeks, I’ve been posting various tips …

Top 10 Photography Books of 2012

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Photography education should always be an on-going thing and there are some excellent books available to help you learn more about photography technique as well as post processing. I have compiled a list of my …

Rim Lighting To Add Wow To Your Images

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I really love using multiple light sources because it enables you to do things that most photographers can’t do. With a little extra light somewhere you can take a regular image and really do something …

5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 4

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This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.
This series has been all about wrangling in your off-camera flash.  We’ve gone a little more advanced, and the responses …