As an on-site photographer, I’m an off-camera hot shoe flash kind of girl. I work without an assistant, so the ability to pull the flash off my camera after a wedding ceremony and onto a light stand for portraits has always appealed to me.
But, at times -- like when fumbling with four AA batteries -- I’ve wondered if I was missing out by not lugging around a studio strobe. Enter the Flashpoint Xplor 100 Pro TTL pocket flash. . thephoblographer.com
Heads up, Flickr users! The platform has recently revamped its galleries, so you might want to take a look what has changed if you haven't been around making galleries of your favorite works by your favorite creatives. thephoblographer.com »
2018-09-11 01:00
There is a reason that film simulation presets are so popular, and that there are entire websites and communities of photographers built up around them – they look good and have interesting looks that you just don’t get (usually) right out of a digital camera. thephoblographer.com »
2017-10-24 19:00
There is a reason that film simulation presets are so popular, and that there are entire websites and communities of photographers built up around them – they look good and have interesting looks that you just don’t get (usually) right out of a digital camera. thephoblographer.com »
2017-10-24 19:00
What makes a good tripod? This 5-minute video from Kai Wong looks at the ins and outs of a photographer’s three-legged friend. In his typical charismatic fashion, Kai makes a seemingly boring topic of tripods light up with his engaging look at the different elements you should pay attention to next time you’re choosing a new […] petapixel.com »
2017-07-25 19:32
Many reviews online talk about how the Sony a9 III is great for photographing birds. But those reviews are catered more towards photographers who look and don't see. That is, they capture, and they don't create.
Canon has delayed the launch of the Speedlite EL-5 due to production issues that prevented it from being able to make enough of them. [Read More]
Paul C. Buff has announced a new 500Ws compact and lightweight battery strobe called the Celestial, which features a bright LED modeling light, a built-in wireless receiver, and support for high-speed sync (HSS) and TTL shooting. [Read More]
One of the cool things that photographers can do is use a shoot-through reflector. Most of us use it to soften the light that the sun outputs and work with natural lighting. But did you realize that you can also use it to soften the light from a flash or a strobe.
When this was typed into our site's search engine, I immediately got excited. Yes, a flash can fix almost any sort of bad performance with a camera. Lots of new photographers are very afraid of flash so they only use constant light and neons.
Godox has announced the Lux Junior on-camera flash, a $69 retro-inspired strobe for Fujifilm, Canon, Nikon, OM-Digital (Olympus), and Sony cameras. [Read More]
During the dark ages of digital photography, also known as the early 2000s, I was spending an awful lot of time trying to get my Canon 430EX Speedlite to work as an off-camera flash.