Hey you all!

As most of my work is with small flashes I must bring you to this very talented Swedish photographer (Stockholm, Sweden) who is also a graphic designer.You can get to his site at this address .As I use small flashes in the tutorials you see in that site, Stefan is using “big” lights Profoto units if I read it right.The “big” lights can get you better results in many of the cases than the small lights,as the ad-ons you can work with the big light are much versatile than the one that you can get or DIY for the small light (not mentioning power and the light shape).

In Stefans blog and site you could get many tutorials , mainly about portrait photography,in those tutorials you’ll see detailed examples and diagrams for the shootouts he did.I really liked the product shootout that you can see in that link Lighting setup for Amigurumi product photography using only two lights!

I have to say that this tutorial really got me thinking on trying to get this nice result with the small flashes that I use for my product photography tutorials…So the first two things that I did after I read that tutorial by stefan is to DIY two honeycoms for my flashes, one circular shaped and on rectangle shape.

Stefan Tell

Enjoy the site by Stefan and see you soon with my next tutorial!

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many times I see on the net good flash photography sites,but not great sites.This one is one of the best that I visited the last month and I do recommend you guys to check it up once in a while or register to its mailing list.

This is a site by David Tejada (if I got it right),and its moto is

“Small StrobesBig Results”

Well he do delivers.

So go and visit it ,I’m sure you’ll like some of the stuff he is talking about.

Site

Well you all know that I really like the Popular Photography magazine,I actually believe that this magazine is the thing that got me shooting and directed me for photography (My father has a subscription for the last 20 yeas or so)…

In the last edition there was an article that explains the basic (but not only the basic) steps for shooting your rock band.This articles actually tells the story of each editorial shootout weather its a fashion shoot of band portrait.

So you should go on and read it, get the magazine or check out Pop’s web site for the full article summery.

The article is well written by Adam Elmakias and you could get it here.

Bey the way,there is a new feature in our site, You could get a free Email updatefor each article or tutorial we post in out site.You could put your email in the empty fill-in box in the top right corner.

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Decided to set a test for the Canon 580EXII that I have.I did the test with fresh charged GP Recyco 2050ma/h (the best rechargeable batteries that I use for my digital photography).In the movie yout could see the start-up time for the Canon speedlite 580EXII and also the recycling times as checked at 1/4th,1/2th ,full power.

The results are very good ,at least compared to my old fill flash the Canon SpeedLite 550EX.

See the movie here:

Please comments below and on my youtube movies.

Yes I know this post isn’t about product photography or studio photography,but as I realized today(!!! a couple of day after every one in the entire world…) about the new to come Canon 7D I was really enthusiastic!!!

As a long time Canon camera user ,I actually started about ten years ago with a HP camera but the second one was the legendary Canon G3,I use to follow the Canon cameras very closely.Recently I started to think about upgrading one of my 30D or 40D to a new Canon 5DmkII or getting a used Canon 5D.Now as just entered the dpreviw.com site looking for some information about one of those two I saw that Canon got the new model soon.

Why it is so good for me?

1.Finally Canon will let their users have a built in camera wireless flash control!!!YEHH after Nikon and Fuji had this for about a decade,we as Canon users could get it too!!!

2.Much better ISO capabilities – I get high as 1600-3200 and no more ,so if it will good at 3200 I’ll be very very happy!

3.Better focus system!!!

4.HD video!

5. 18MP pictures!!! but who counts…)

This makes me a very good Canon option.I don’t know what to do?Get the 5D or the 7D?

To the Canon 7D home page click here.

I know this is not a tutorial post,but once in a while when I bump into a good article,web page or so,I have let you guys know about it.

It if very interesting to see how the photography world has changed in the last decades.Not only the photography world have changed but also the equipment and its design has changed too.

Popular photography magazine published some of their first covers and ads (starts back in the late 1930’s)

Take a look at this,is full of cool vintage/retro style stuff!

Here is the link: click here.