Category Archives: Photo Tips Wow, it’s Halloween again, already! As if to underline the point, a cold front has just swept through Texas bringing highs only in the mid 60′s (Fahrenheit, that is). Now, that may not be cold to some, including the ice cream vendor cruising my neighborhood as I write, but it hasn’t been this cold in…  Last weekend a friend of mine invited me to the Texans-Raiders game at Reliant Stadium. I haven’t been to many games – I think this was only the third pro game I’ve ever attended. Obviously, growing up in England, (American) Football was never high on my sports agenda. Now I had an opportunity to shoot… no comments  Traveling Lighting Kit In my traveling lighting kit I have both the 24” x 24” and 30” x 30” Lastolite Ezybox softboxes. “So what’s the difference?” I’m often asked. “6 inches” is usually too trite an answer, “324 square inches” is usually too involved. Of course, the real key lies in the quality of the… show 3 comments 
nice story and helpful information, thanks very much. 
Thanks this was a useful article, I enjoyed it. I also have started with a 24 x 2″4, and would love a bigger one for those full portraits shots. Say an nice huge Octodome. The 70-200 f2.8 has to come first though
Thanks this was a useful article, I enjoyed reading it. I also have started with a 24 x 24” softbox and would love a bigger one, say a huge monster Octodome. One day maybe,. The 70-200 f2.8 has to come first  OCF33 E-TTL Cords One of the tools I recently added to my lighting kit was an OCF33 E-TTL Cord and it’s quickly becoming my favorite lighting accessory. The standard Canon off-camera flash cord is the OC-E3. This is a coiled wire cord with a length of 2 feet (60cm). At this short length, it’s only… show 2 comments 
With the Nikon CLS System we do not have these problems as the on Camera Flash can be programmed to fire off camera Flash, I have used as many as three Flashes like this. Works great and no coiled cords. 
Hi Jim,  We recently took a trip back to the home country to visit my family. On the way back we stopped off in New York for two days. My son wanted to visit the Statue of Liberty so we made plans to take the first boat out in the morning. Tip for anyone that wants a… show 1 comment 
France gave us a great gift. I guess I should probably book a trip to see the crown, seeing as I live here. One view you almost never see is the back.  July 4th is fast approaching and many people in the US are starting to think about how to photograph fireworks. Of the blogs I follow, Joe McNally was the first to post on this subject this year with his Shooting Fireworks post. The classic approach, and the one you find in pretty much all the… show 5 comments 
Thanks for the great information. I shot fireworks for the first time last night and brought your directions with me. They were a great help! I will surely use them as reference for the rest of the summer. 
My first time out of the box on fireworks (2009), I nailed it on long shutter speeds and continuous exposure, and of course a tripod … Last year and this year, the results were far less gratifying. Your approach never occurred to me and I will set up one camera to attempt this strategy next shoot. Thanks very much. 
Nice article. I’m going to follow you on Twitter. You sound like you have lots of great ideas to share. Je 
Hi, this is shahriar from bangladesh, your new tweeter friend, great works, really liked your HDR works. Best of luck. SH 
Thanks for this article. Very helpful.  Back in January, David (The Strobist) Hobby and Joe (Numnuts) McNally announced their Flash Bus 2011 Tour – a six-week, 29-city bus tour around the US teaching their small flash lighting philosophies. David takes a manual approach (in the main) while Joe usually takes the TTL route. On March 26 the tour bus pitched up… no comments  So I was reading Terry White’s guest blog on Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider today about his workflow and found his comments on editing down the collection – deleting the bad photos – to resonate with the comments from Joe McNally in the clip I blogged about on December 29, 2010. When it comes to my… no comments  Over on Scott Kelby’s blog today is a link to a really interesting conversation between Scott Kelby and Joe McNally. Sans interviewer, the pair have a conversation about where there photography has come from and where it is going. Among the takeaways are: Get it right in the camera (to spend less time at the… no comments  I finally got the opportunity to spend two days in the company on Joe McNally at a seminar arranged by Sharlie Douglas of Nikon and Larry Wheeler of Houston Camera Exchange. While the audience was primarily made up of Nikon users, I wasn’t the lone Canonista. I also learned some areas where Nikon Speedlights have… no comments |
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