Articles tagged with: Strobe
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Getting Manual Flash Exposure Quickly
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. …
Review: Sticky Filters Gel Kit
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
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 …
Rim Lighting To Add Wow To Your Images
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
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 …
Top 5 Modifiers For Photography Lighting
I constantly get asked about my favorite modifiers so I have put together a list of my top 5 all-time favorite light modifiers. From the small and ultra-portable Rouge Flashbenders that you will always see …
5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 3
This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.
This week continues the journey through various tips to wrangle the best possible light out of a single light source …
5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 2
This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.
Last week, I started the series with a demonstration of how to correctly mount your umbrella to a …
5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash – Part 1
Occasionally I like to delve a little beyond the basics for some of the more advanced and forward-thinking folks in the photography audience, and this week, I’d like to do just that. We’re going to …
Using Gels To Fix An Ugly Sky
Yesterday I went out with the LA Shoot This! group to help lead a group shoot event but unfortunately Mother Nature was not on our side. The sky was gray and boring and it was …
