When using studio lights and off-camera flashes, things can get complicated pretty quickly. Mastering artificial lighting is a tough challenge in photography, and one that takes a lot of your time. Below is a video describing how to you flash zones (or groups) to streamline your lighting setup and get multiple shots without the hassle […]
Shooting in bright sunlight can pesent a lot of lighting problems for photographers. One way to overcome the harsh sun is by overpowering it with speedlites. Professional photographer Tyler Stableford takes viewers on a trip up the Snowmass Terrain Park in a snow-covered Colorado to show us his setup as he takes a few action shots […]
Despite what you may have been told, you don’t need an extensive lighting setup to do professional quality studio work. In the seminar below, speedlight master, Bob Harrington, explains how to get started using minimal equipment. Throughout the nearly two-hour long presentation, Harrington gives a live demonstration on six different ways to use only a single […]
Generally speaking, it’s easier to learn new things if we have something familiar that we can compare it to. We essentially use what we know as fact to create a bridge of sorts to the unknown, making the learning process naturally flow. This is exactly the approach Mike Browne decided to take when creating a […]
Coping with cancer is a difficult journey for patients and their loved ones. The battle can be painful, exhausting, and disheartening. Organizations such as Flashes of Hope, a non-profit group that takes professional portraits of children diagnosed with cancer at no-cost to the families, look to bring a smile to their faces, if not reignite hope into their lives. The charity, which currently covers 72 hospitals nationwide, is made possible by gracious volunteers–many of whom are award-wining photographers.
Accidents don’t have to necessarily be a bad thing. Such is the case when University of Queensland undergrad Sean Murphy accidentally discovered what has come to be known as flashed face distortion. The phenomena occurs when two side-by-side head shots are perfectly aligned at the eyes and the viewer focuses on negative space between the two images. […]
In this short video, photographer RJ Hidson demonstrates a fairly simple set up to get very striking multiple exposure images using Nikon SB-800 and SB-900 flashguns: The key points to shooting these images are as follows: Set the camera up on a tripod and use a long exposure time of around 3–4 seconds The exposure […]
Think you know all there is to know about your Canon Speedlites? Syl Arena’s latest presentation may prove you wrong. This masterclass gives a very in-depth, albiet lengthy, overview of when and how to work every last function of your Speedlites. The nearly two hour long video begins with some photography basics that all stress the […]
Making Light II – Advanced Use of Off-Camera Flash by Piet Van den Eynde was released today and is an in-depth instructional eBook on the topic of advanced flash photography. I definitely recommend this book as I found it to be very well put together with extremely valuable information. Building on the previous book, this […]
Making Light – An Introduction to Off-Camera Flash by Piet Van den Eynde was released today and is designed to help you master external flash photography. The author says “I don’t know about you, but flash used to scare me. I found it to be complicated, difficult to pre-visualize (I’m talking about the pre-digital era here), and lacking quality results. Of course, I only put my flash on my camera and the furthest I got to softening the light was to bounce my flash behind me. I worked on full auto because I found all the rest way too complicated. So, I was an available-light photographer for a long time. Not so much by persuasion as by lack of understanding and, therefore, lack of alternative. If you have a similar attitude to flash, then this eBook is for you.”
