Lastolite demonstrations at Focus I’m known for doing a lot of Canon seminars and quite a lot with Speedlite flash, so it was really great to be asked by Lastolite to deliver a few demonstrations on their stand at Focus to show how their softboxes, grids and gels work with Speedlites. Lastolite’s latest EzyBox II …
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When the Speedlite 580EX II was launched it came with a new external auto and external manual metering mode that uses a sensor on the flash to determine when the subject has had enough light and then the flash autonomously switches off it’s own output. The Speedlite 600EX-RT also has this and you can set …
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I have done lots of presentations and seminars on Canon Speedlite flash and I like my material to be driven from complete understanding of the facts about how it works and some real world practical experience. Just recently I shot some location pictures in a parkland area in Oxford. Travelling light with no assistant I …
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Working with off-camera Speedlite flashes on location gives many photographers a new way to light their subjects, yet add a few coloured gels and you have access to a bigger palette of colour than you would find naturally. Some of the popular gels are the colour correction types. These are designed to convert the colour …
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