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When lighting with small subjects, a speedlight is generally all you’ll ever need. Further, because of the scale and distances involved, even with a small flash you’ll be working at low power settings. For these photos of some of the resident animals at the Howard County Conservancy, we used a single speedlight generally at one-eighth […]
As we all move into a hopefully much better 2021, here are three things you can do to improve your experience as a photographer for the coming year. Take a Moment to Revisit Your Previous Work Sometimes you’re too deep in the woods to see the forest for the trees. Like when your spouse borrows […]
Quick, guess the lighting. If you said two lights, and use of high-speed sync to get the shallow depth of field, that’s a pretty good guess. If you said zero lights and a rigid high-efficiency reflector, that’s an even better (and correct) guess. When working with an inexperienced assistant — or looking to introduce someone […]
At first glance: a simple, one-light portrait of activist gardener Janssen Evelyn. Dig deeper: a look at tonal mapping via specular highlights, stretching the range of your modestly powered flash, and how to discover your next project. My summer project this year was a series of portraits to help mark the 30th anniversary of […]
There are two main schools of thought when it comes to lighting. One is to light your subject in a way that is not grounded in reality but merely looks cool. And the other is to use lighting to translate the way your eye sees light into a way that your camera can better understand […]
Whenever you have control over the time of day in which you’ll be shooting a location portrait, always remember that the hour that wraps around sunset will offer you at least five different lighting environments in which to work. And for today’s portrait of birders Jo (left) and Bob Solem, we’re going to use three […]
Seeing as no one is doing much traveling these days, I thought it’d be fun to pay a visit with a Strobist reader photographing somewhere far away. Up for a little Lighting Cookbook field trip to Indonesia? Yeah? Then let’s go… __________ Our local guide and guest photographer for this trip is Mr. Tommy Soebagjo. […]
How best to put this? The Godox TT600 is, objectively, a screaming bargain. It is a full-sized manual-only speedlight with power comparable to OEM speedlights that cost over eight(!) times as much. It features a reliable, built-in transceiver, a suite of different remote triggers and is part of a ridiculously comprehensive lineup of lighting gear. […]
NOTE: This post has been updated to reflect that X-Peditions’ 2020 season has filled. X-Peditions is a collaborative project between Strobist.com and Washington DC-based Focus on the Story. You can learn more about our program in general, and/or get early notification for next year’s program, at X-Peditions.com. Source link
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The LumoPro LP180 is no more. You could make a strong case that the LP180 was the best manual hot shoe flash ever produced — and maybe that ever will be produced. It was a beast of a flash, with a fluid user interface and features designed specifically for off-camera lighting photographers. Now, it’s the […]