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 …
When I’m teaching photographers how to get better pictures with the photo gear they have, I use a range of photo gear. So in this Christmas season here’s my list of seven top photo essentials. 1. Camera Everybody needs one to take photos, or make movies. I’ve been a long time Canon user, since the …
Guide to Linked Shot mode While many photographers have more than one camera, it’s not often that the need arises for more than one to be triggered at the same time. For sport photography it is quite common to have a camera that will trigger another fixed camera with a very different view of the …
EOS 5D Mark III multiple exposure mode EOS 5D Mark III includes a multiple exposure mode that makes in-camera composite images simple to do, and very importantly it allows each of the component images to be saved as a RAW image as well as the final composite. Taking a simple subject and lighting them with two …
Pocket Wizard & Speedlites that don’t sleep on the job! Just yesterday I got a call from a photographer friend asking for my advice on stopping his Canon Speedlite from sleeping. He was using a Pocket Wizard plus II to trigger his Speedlite set to a manual power level. The problem was the Speedlite kept …
One of the questions I often get asked is how to make multiple Speedlites communicate reliably outdoors. Canon’s flash system uses pulses of light to transfer commands from the master flash to the slave flashes. The slaves don’t send communication back, but they do flash and pre-flash as requested by the master. Canon’s manuals give …