Canon Wireless Flash System
With the introduction of the EOS 7D, Canon finally took the initiative to play catch-up to Nikon in an area where they had been woefully lacking: wireless flash control. For years Canon has been not only in the backseat, but in the far back of the bus, when compared to Nikon’s Creative Lighting System.
The 7D [...]
Ambient Light
Last time I covered some Strobist-style shots, both studio & mixed-ambient based. Working with strobes is a lot of fun and the level of control that it grants is clearly higher than you get when you leave it to nature. Natural light, on the other hand is unpredictable; clouds come and go, the sun rises [...]
Rocking the Light
If you read the previous thread about the Strobist workshop, then you’ll recognize some of what follows. This all came out of the last hour or two of the workshop, when a group of us decided that by staying inside, we were missing out on the best stuff. In the end, we have to thank [...]
Strobist Workshop: a HUGE success
Saturday was the culmination of a long process: the first Northeastern DPC Strobists workshop. This was an event that I’d had in mind for several years, finally brought to fruition, and man was it ever a blast! Ten photographers descended on the Pocono Inn’s conference room for a full day of studio shooting. We had [...]
Small studio? No problem!
Some days you just want to kick yourself for being dense. There was an active thread on FredMiranda.com the other day, asking about using a 20×20 foot room as a studio space. Now as studios go, 20×20 is rather small (think bedroom sized), and the challenges of making photos in there become more pronounced. Nevertheless, [...]
Large Family Portrait – Theory
Got a gig booked for two weekends from now, photographing a large family portrait. We’re planning on about 25 people, all meeting at the home of the parents, where we’re going to squeeze them all into a room and make them smile like they want to be there.
The goal is to get in, setup, and [...]
Cookies Baking
‘Tis the Christmas season – in fact just days away from the big morning itself – and so my apartment’s tiny kitchen was a spot of frenzied activity this afternoon as Mandy baked up a storm. I missed the first batch of cookies, and was editing photos whole she moved from cookies to bread.
If we [...]
Speedlight ProKit 6 – Review
If you follow the Strobist path to off-camera lighting, and especially if you play around with DIY projects, then you’ve likely been in the position of trying to find/build a good softbox for your Speedlight flashes.
Unfortunately, as anyone who has DIY-built such a softbox knows, there’s a big gap between the theory of the [...]
Family Xmas Portraits, Take 2 – Reality
A couple of these gig-overview posts back, I switched to using the terms “theory” and “reality” for the pre and post gig discussions. In the past I’d used terms like “pregame,” “review,” and “preview,” but I never felt that any of those were really the right description – they are all open to too many [...]
Family Christmas Photos – Reality
I’m left few Hershey Kisses and a pot of hot chocolate, but the Family Christmas Photos I talked about in this previous post are done – or at least the shooting is done, and now I’m left with about 15 shots to edit and submit to the printers by Friday, to try and ensure that [...]