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The Sony SLT-A77, six months later
posted by maddrew - 6th of march, 2012
Sony has been playing with the translucent technology since the release of their SLT-A55(V) no more than 2 years ago. The Sony SLT cameras look like a cross between a traditional DSLR and a mirrorless compact, and the A55 was like... More...
power sources for flash ( AA size elements )
posted by drago76 - 13th of january, 2012
Hello! Some time ago i try to get a small knowledge about rechargeable batteries ( because on many cases it is a far better and cheaper than alkaline and so on), and i want to share my small knowledge in this area. i reading a lots... More...
Tip - Cheap Flash Units for DIY Studios
posted by peanutroaster - 8th of december, 2011
Lately I've been experimenting with a DIY home studio setup in the basement. I started with continuous lighting using large CFLs but moved on to trying out flash units. I picked up an inexpensive flash trigger systems for three... More...
Lighting
posted by hongchan001 - 3rd of december, 2011
Hi everyone, today I like to share how I created the lighting for my this latest picture. Well we all know in short there are two kind of lighting, continuous light (which is sunlight, tungsen, torch or....... ) and strobe light (which... More...
SD versus CF or simple SD and CF
posted by digikhmer - 9th of november, 2011
I am using this for quite a long period already. It us such a big convenient thing to manage my pictures during holidays, long trip etc... It is a simple item which is a Secure Drive to Compact Flash converter commonly called SD/... More...
Flashlight did the job
posted by risto40 - 29th of october, 2011
It's just amazing what a single small pocket flashlight can do with images, instead of using onboard flash. One evening I was taking pictures in a dark room. My "model" was a small alcohol glass. When I shoot on tripod, I always use... More...
Softbox Diffuser for Shoe Mount Flashes
posted by gmargittai - 23rd of september, 2011
Don't know about other people but I really hated the electronic flashes. Especially the ones that come with the camera with their tiny area. The only thing they do is insert their harsh light, create strong shadows and kill the mood... More...
Studio lighting for beginners
posted by nicku - 10th of june, 2011
I read over time many threads regarding studio lights.... Many beginners in stock photography wonder what kind of lights others contributors use? some photographers use expensive lights and big studious other makeshift studios in... More...
How to recover images from corrupt card .... Essential tool
posted by bevanward - 8th of june, 2011
I thought I should share another lesson I learnt this week past. I was helping shoot some stills around a friends commercial film from morning until lunch on Saturday. I then went to download what I had, around 400 images, when my... More...
How to make interesting fruit backgrounds
posted by matijakeber - 21st of april, 2011
I tried a new thing this afternoon and I thought i should share it. So the idea was to make close up of juicy, translucent fruit. So here's what I did: 1. I chopped a lemon, 2. put the pieces on a piece of glass, that was near the... More...
High speed photography
posted by diavata - 10th of march, 2011
About one year ago, I came across a website with beautiful images of splashes. I immediately knew I wanted to do this too! However, I was a macro photographer, withy zero experience of studio and/or flash photography. So, I had no... More...
Studio Lights that are affordable
posted by visceralimage - 31st of december, 2010
Most of us wish to have a studio to photograph products or people. A short visit to any photography store or even an online store will show you that a decent light system starts at about $1200 and goes sky high from there. Sure,... More...
Flash content
posted by eternalfour - 6th of december, 2010
Dear all I was wondering if dreamstime.com will add flash based medium such as photo gallery templates created via flash and uploaded by photographers or designers does anyone or can Dreamstime.com staff enlighten me if such... More...
Studio shooting
posted by dmitrytsvetkov - 23rd of november, 2010
In my previous blog, when I wrote that start my studio life, somebody asked me to write blog about my studio set up. I really don't know what heshe wants to hear and want to write, but I'll try. First of all I can say that it's not... More...
Flash illustrations
posted by alexhor - 2nd of november, 2010
Although there are many tools for expressing creativity through illustration, I noticed that some people are most comfortable using Flash from Adobe Creative Suite collection. It is true that once you get used to Flash drawing tools... More...
one last joke
posted by imaengine - 2nd of september, 2010
A journalist photographer was caught out in a rain shower when he saw a dark gloomy house. While he was drying off in the house he heard scary sounds and saw a ghost coming towards him. He grabbed his camera to take pictures. The ghost... More...
Do you dot your i dots
posted by palangsi - 3rd of august, 2010
As a practitioner of Graphology, I have noticed that there are some people who do not dot their i dots. I have been teaching some people photography over 4 years and realised that these people generally don't like using off-camera lighting.... More...
Adobe Vs Apple - The Flash Debate
posted by jsternig - 30th of april, 2010
With Adobe's new Creative Suite 5 recently released, the cracks in the relationship between the software giant and Apple seem to have widened, with words spoken between the two being anything but warm and friendly. One main component... More...
Why I love small flashes to shoot outdoors
posted by nansaidh - 17th of march, 2010
I used to always use natural light outdoors, and I still often do, but now that I have started using a small flash off camera I find my images "pop" more and I am able to capture images in all types of difficult lighting situations.... More...
Off Camera Flash for outstanding images!
posted by nansaidh - 9th of march, 2010
Something I've added to my use with flash is OFC, or off camera flash. I learned about it from a great site called Strobist.com and the idea is very simple and easy to use with outstanding results! It allows me to shoot stright... More...
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