Tyler Stableford is a Canon USA Explorer of Light, he’s been given the task to try out the new Speedlite 600EX-RT and the ST-E3 Speedlite transmitter in conjunction with the EOS-1Dx. The results are seen in a new video that Tyler has posted on Vimeo.
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Last night I attended the opening of Drew Gardner’s Olympic Golden Greats Exhibition. Over the last few years Drew and his partner Lucinda Marland have been taking photos of Britain’s older generation of Olympic champions. This personal project has seen them travel over 15,000 miles to meet all these winners of an Olympic gold medal, …
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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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Earlier this week I had a chance to meet up with new model Steph and do a quick test shoot. We avoided the worst of the rain by shooting under the trees in the woods. All pictures have a mix of ambient and Speedlite flash. For the shots in the woods the flash was bounced …
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Gumball 3000 Rally, London March 26, 2011 The Gumball 3000 Rally is open to all kinds of cars, but it’s the supercars actually the hypercars that attract the crowds. It’s not that often that Covent Garden is a car park for Buggattis, Aston Martins, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley, Spyker, Maserati and even the odd …
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I’ve owned an EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens almost since it became available in the UK, but for resons I can’t think of I haven’t shot with it much. I think that more often than not I take the smaller and lighter 70-200mm f/4L lens when I have a bag full of kit, …
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Recently I have been doing a lot of shoots with flash both Canon Speedlites and Elinchrom studio lights. Just last week I had a call from fellow photographer Ross Holkham asking if I would like to join him for a shoot. Not being one to turn down the chance to shoot, and actually thinking that …
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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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