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.

I saw this funny post in the strobist.com.It is funny cause you get to know how much the process of taking a “simple” 2 Iphones” picture takes.The photographer Peter Belager created a video of that process.At first you only put the two Iphones on the dashboard and the you start to add the light sources 1,2,3,4… I stopes counting but it lots a mess,definatly not the 2 stobes head shot…The process continues with the quick proffessional Mac photo editing (it has to me Mac computer,as it is a MacWorld Magazine…) Emailing the photo and printing the magazine…

Realy a well done movie that you’ll need to watch.

More information about Peter Belager:

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Lastolite,the popular light diffuser manufacture has an online digital photography school.Great stuff in and you must see that site!

Lastolite School of Photography

Whether you’re a photo student, amateur photographer with aspirations or a seasoned professional, I hope this blog holds value. By sharing information and working together we can maintain the value and integrity of the images that we, as photographers, create for the world.

Check the video section for ideas and inspiration,covering protrait photography,product photography and even computer and photoshop tecniques.

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Site:pro photo life

Scot Kelby is one of the photoshop’s and photography’s gurus in the world.In his great lokking blog he shares some of his tips with thousands of reads daily!

You could get there many photography related video’s and interviews with the best photographers and photoshop masters in the world.

This is a link you must bookmark!

Scot Kelby’s Blog

While wondering the youtube world for photography tips to share with you readers I saw this video by Joe McNally,a photographer that uses some Nikon Speedlights for his outdoor work.In the video attached here you can see how Joe uses his hot shoe flashes to lit the desert.I actually decided to watch the hole movie after I saw how many flashes he used for the first setup,you could count them yourself,I stopped after 5…

How many flashes do you use for your setups?
What was the biggest number?
Mine is 4 (I only have 3 Canon speedlites and an old Olypus one)

Scot put a test in his blog trying to answer the popular question:

“What is the difference between off camera flash (like a Nikon SB-800 or SB-900, or a Canon 580 EXII), and a Studio Strobe?“

So he took three photos,two of them shot with a studio strobe in a small softbox and one of them shot with an off camera flash and the same softbox.Now its your turn to guess wich one of them is the off camera flash and who is not…

I have to admit that I guessed the wrong one…

Studio Strobes vs. Small Off-Camera Flashes-The big test(take your time to decide) and a detailed advantage/disadvantage for Studio Strobes vs. Small Off-Camera Flashes.

I got this link from a forum where a amember asked for the differences between two light diffusers gadget (I believe ut was a soft box Vs. Beauty dish).

I the link below you can see the differences between 20 light modifiers by Bron Electronic AG.

Check this one its very interesting!

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As I mentioned before,i do love photography a lot.It all started (my digital photography) some years ago when i first got a HP digital camera.I remember it was 3MP which was a lot for those days,with extremely bad image quality,but there where no many digital cameras for amateur photographers.After about a year I upgraded my camera to Canon G3 (and never left Canon since)  .

It was then when I started to “play” with of camera flash,I had an old Canon SpeedLite 540EZ who I contected to an optical slave trigger and it was alot of fun to discover new way of light and photography.Much of the things I experienced then and know today come from some ecxellent sites.Here is a sort list of those sites,please be wellcomed to send me links or share your favorite site trough the comments section of that page:

1. Strobist.com-Is there anyone who doesn’t know this one?Probably the most popular photoblog in the world…It deals with the use os small flash units instead of strobes to get professional results.Its a must bookmark blog.Concepts for Lighting and Digital Photography-Its a page that covers almost all the principles of flash photography.Read until you memorised it all!
2. dg28.com – once was a blog now the personal site of Neil Turner a very talented photographer.The pages that you’ll need to see are: old techniques (thats the section I read time after time) and new techniques.Those two pages will give endless ideas and advise about of camera flash photography!Be sure to read the comments section too,trough the comment section I got to other photographers sites and learn more stuff (it’s always a good idea to search the web for photographers stuff).
3. Digital photography school-Began as a great blog and still has a lot of information to read.The blog is operated by Darren Rowse,who is never the less the man behind problogger.com and is a blogging guru too!

Please if you have more sites to share with us let us know by mail or comments!!!

Enjoy,and remember you have to go out shooting’thats what will make your photography better!!!