Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Editor’s note: There are enough questions coming in via the comments that I am prepping a slave-related Q&A for later this week. If you have a question that has not yet been asked, please get it into the comments ASAP. Thanks.__________ In part one, we talked about the differences in optical slaves, and why internal [...]
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First off, this is a long-overdue post. It arguably could have been in Lighting 101. But this week (four-plus years later) we’ll be looking at choosing and using optical slaves. In this post, how to figure out which kind is right for you.__________ Only Two Things Matter Slaves are not particularly complicated. They see a [...]
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I know what you are thinking — this snoot looks a little familiar, perhaps? Well, it is — and it isn’t. Actually, better lemme explain.__________ Okay, long story short — and without going into too much detail: Honl creates a line of snoots and gobos. Sells them independently. Signs with ExpoImaging as distributors. A falling [...]
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Here’s a quick little tip for the next time you find yourself in need of a little impromptu on-axis fill and you do not have a ring light: Use a direct speedlight instead. It’s small, hand-holdable — and very powerful. The trick is getting it off of top of the camera, and even closer to [...]
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Multi-speedlight brackets are a great way to gang up your small flashes when you need a little extra oomph, as in when trying to overpower the sun for a portrait. Why not just buy a monobloc, you ask? Well, for one thing, it is easy to gang up small flashes. But it is a little [...]
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We get lot of smoke photography in the Strobist Flickr Group, but this is the first time one has come close to getting bounced for not being family-friendly. On second thought, I don’t see anything unusual about it at all. (Nope, nothing.) Click the pic to get to the Flickr page, where Strobist reader Shafik [...]
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It’s been a while since we got a chance to chat with any dead artists, and Edward Hopper was actually in the news this month. So I caught up with him last week at (appropriately) a bar in Fell’s Point in Baltimore to chat about the use of light in his most famous work.__________ Strobist: [...]
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Today, I’m going just a little bit out on a limb, making the first-ever detailed recommendations from this site. And we’ll be jumping right into the deep end, into the crowded and somewhat murky waters of remote syncing devices. Recommendations for three budgets — and why — after the jump.__________ Guidelines First, this stuff is [...]
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