Controlling your ambient light in your studio shots will let you much more control over the total image output.In the previous discussion about the ambient light we got to the point that the amount of the ambient light in your pictures is determined mainly by the shutter speed (in opposite Continue Reading
Tips
Some things you should know about photography lighting,techniques and photography matters
Best off camera flashes under 100$
As you may know if you read my site,or if it is your first time around,I do recommend to learn about flashes and lighting by testing the studio setups that you’ll find here and on the web with small flashes.This will allow you not to spent a lot of money Continue Reading
Bounce flash products
Going around the web I found a manufacture of really big,but portable diffusers. The good thing about it is that they have an online catalogue and downloadable catalogue.In this catalogue there are many examples on how touse their products,much of them also show the setups used for taking really professional shots.You could Continue Reading
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Hot-Shoe Flash
Popular Photography magazine (I’m a subscriber for at least 10 years)Published in their August issue a very interesting list about the misunderstanding or things you should know about your hot-shoe flash. You could read the full article in the Popular Photography web site here. Here is a summery of the Continue Reading
Photoshop TiltShift photography by- tiltshiftphotography.net
I always liked the effect of the tiltshift lens.The basic construction of the lens enables the front element to shift in a direction you like and by that to put the focus of the lens on any point of the frame that you like.By that allowing you to control the Continue Reading
Products Photography-Using Gels For Special Effects
Many times I’m asked how those kind of pictures are taken.I must say that at the beginning I thought that it was a much more complicated process.Actually that when I show this picture to my wife she didn’t believed me that it is mine until I show her the KONICA Continue Reading
3 Best On Camera Flash Diffusers
Many times when I shoot indoors-family or my little boy Eitan I don’t like to setup flashes and want to be spontaneous .After knowing that the direct on camera flash shooting option is the last thing to consider,I started to look for an on camera flash gadget that will improve Continue Reading
580ex II master mode does not appear to work? -good master/slave post at fredmiranda.com
In this post a member of the fredmiranda.com forum had a problem setting his Canon 580EXII as master to the Canon 420EX.There is some good tips and pictured explenations on how to solve this problem and set the 580EX master for the 420EX. The link to the post.
A Must Visit Site-Dave Black Photography
Dave Black is educated in graphic design and drawing,but he is better known for his photography skills and specialising in high speed sport photography. In his site you’ll see many of his work,as well – and thats the good stuff- the “workshop at the ranch” section:full of detailed tutorials on Continue Reading
10 Great tip for shooting fireworks
After I read a list of tips about shooting fireworks and how to shoot fireworks in the fremiranda.com forums (My favorite forums site).I decided to put my list some pf the points in that list written corockett (username) .SO here are the tips I have to give you. Bey the way Continue Reading
Photo effects with manual zooming your flash
One of he options for controlling the size of your flash light beam is using a snoot or a grid.Both of those methods will be introduce to you in very simple DIY projects that will improve your photographic creativity very fast and easy.But there is another way to control the Continue Reading
6 tips for amazing extreme macro photography
Tips from extreme macro photography. When you want to shoot macro-getting close into the objects,one option is to use a macro lens.I use the canon 100mm f/2.8 macro.The macro lens allows you to get very close to subjects and gets you 1:1 magnification. If you want to get extreme closeups Continue Reading
4 Lighting gadgets you should consider for your off camera flash
In case you don’t like to do some DIY (I don’t know why cause it a fun thing to do),here are some gadgets for your hot shoe flash.I can promise that some of them will appear in the following weeks us DIY projects section and I promise to total cost Continue Reading
Quality of light-some example
Quality of light-simple example. As I finished making a soon to be published DIY 20cm*20cm Gird Softbox (this will be a good one!!) I found out that there is a couple of minutes left before Eitan’s bath to toy with my white umbrella.This is an example of what they say Continue Reading