Yes i’m going green for the weekend Just a quick post as I’m about to head for the airport for a trip to the Emerald Isle to deliver photo workshops and seminars over the weekend. Saturday: Mahers Photographic, Drogheda I’m really excited and pleased to be invited back to deliver two sessions of seminars in …
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Hotrod Strip & Octa Box now with added control Lastolite’s popular Hotrod Strip Box and Octa Box are great for photographers who work with flash on location or even in the studio. Using the strip boxes to give accent light on the sides of athletes combined with a main light directly on the face is …
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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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The edge of the light A soft box is a really great light modifier for all kinds of portrait photography. However the soft box is like other modifiers in that the best and most interesting quality of the light, is frequently found at the edge of the light. Some time ago I saw Bjorn Thomassen …
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The master flash still flashes even when set not to… When using the pop-up flash or another Speedlite flash as a master to control slave flashes off-camera it is necessary for the master to send control signals as pulses of light. The pulses come from the master flash’s main flash tube. The quote above was …
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Mixed mode slave Speedlites and pre-2012 cameras I’ve just found out that it is not possible to mix the modes of radio controlled slave flashes with pre-2012 cameras. I love group mode that is available on the 2012 model year cameras, it lets you put some slave groups in manual, some in E-TTL II, some …
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Making EOS 6D flash exposure compensation accessible EOS 6D doesn’t have a built-in flash and also has taken an approach of a single function to each of the push buttons on the top plate. The result is that flash exposure compensation is not so easy to find, and for me this is a control I …
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Learn to make better DSLR movies and flash pictures In the first quarter of 2013 I will be working with my good mate Dave Newton & EOS Network to bring Speedlite flash training and DSLR movie making training to Bicester in Oxfordshire. Beginners and advanced Speedlite flash There are two courses on offer for photographers …
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