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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 light you can obtain from each. Take a look at the two images below. The image on the top was taken with the 24”x24” Ezybox, […]
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 really useful if you have your flash mounted on a flash bracket. Although I don’t have an OC-E3, I did have a predecessor and I […]
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 resources, including the reference Joe points to, LIFE Guide to Digital Photography, all refer to the use of a tripod to steady the camera and […]
I’m glad to announce that my print shop is now open for business! Initially serving customers in the US and Canada, I hope to open it up to international customers soon. To go to the shop, click the “Buy Images” link in the navigation bar at the top of the page. Initially I have some of my images from my trip to Maine available for sale and I’ll be adding more images in the coming weeks.
After some false starts I’ve re-commenced scanning my Mother’s old Kodachrome slides – images taken in the 60’s and 70’s with a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera that I previously blogged about here. In between I’ve had numerous hardware and software issues with my PC, most recently a boot sector virus that prompted me to through out the old XP dinosaur and buy a Windows 7 dinosaur to replace it. Setting up a new computer is always time consuming and this […]
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 in Houston and about 300 photo enthusiasts lined up outside the Ayva Center in high anticipation of the day to come. A glance at the […]