Photowalks are a great way to get out and challenge yourself, yet have a relaxed day of shooting — relaxed in the sense that you have no client to satisfy — just yourself:-) A great way to recharge the batteries!! Yesterday, the challenge was to use just one lens — more accurately, one focal length,...
Category Archives: equipment
iPad
As the days seem to get busier, I find less time to post on the blog, and in the [b] School discussion groups, so I sometimes double post. Today is a case. Apple introduced the iPad. Photographers are talking about how to use it. Will they use it to display images when they meet with...
Did you get a fancy camera?
… and now you need to learn how to use it? Consider this.
Getting Started
Again, I am posting an answer that I wrote in a forum. The writer had spent over $10,000 on equipment, in the past year, and had contacted local photographers, trying to learn — as an intern. Still, he felt that he was ‘missing something’ and asked how he would know when he ‘had arrived’.. My...
What Camera Brand? Especially Canon vs.Nikon
This can be a fun discussion. However, if I may be allowed an analogy: When I was a kid, I worked on a farm. Sometimes, I had to move manure from one place to another. I noticed that the cows didn’t really care if I hooked up the manure wagon to a Ford or Chevy...
Gary Fong Diffusers
This is re-post of a video from April, 2008. It talks about setting up a temporary studio in a small space — like an apartment living room.
One Light
Just some one-light shots. Single, off-camera SB-900, with Gary Fong Lightsphere and Chromedome. Kicker panel of Chromedome is directing light toward the subject, and the opening, in the top, is pointed toward a large reflector — the reflector is to camera-right, and at about a 45 degree angle, giving a little fill-light on the top...
Using the Canon Flash System
I know — I always talk about Nikon, but this is important. Gary Fong posted this on his blog, and I ‘stole’ it Canon Flash System from GARY FONG on Vimeo. Soon, we’ll have one on Nikon flashes.