a jump to big lights
I’m a Nikon guy and I love speedlights. I love CLS and the built-in freedom we get as Nikon shooters to basically build an entirely wireless studio at no added cost. But sometimes you just need more power. Heck, even David Hobby agrees with that ;-) With a shoot coming up involving largish group shots [...]
Water beads on tall green leaves
Shot with a Sigma 70-300 APO DG; lit with one SB-900 and a Honl grid.
ring light, ring bright.
The ring light look has been a staple of fashion photography for years. It produces perfect catchlights as well as a very clean, shadowless look. Which isn’t something I thought I’d like to be honest, since I pretty much live for the shadows and the contrast between light and darkness. Yeah… I’m a bit of [...]
hard is beautiful
In portraiture you want your light to be soft. The softer the better. You need a big softbox so the light will wrap around your subject and create that perfect shot. Right? Well… Obviously that’s bull since it all depends on where you want to go with your image. And I’m starting to really like [...]
drip
Felt like playing around this afternoon. Got myself a martini glass and some food coloring. Set this up against the Hilite, put the D300 in interval shooting mode and off I went. Nothing too original here since this was mostly an exercise, but I really like the first shot in the set: those two black [...]
trendy baby: 50mm
It’s all over the place. In blogs (great read btw) and in photo mags – the 50mm prime lens is the talk of the town. It’s almost annoying really. I mean, if the masses start taking these amazingly sharp and bokeh filled pictures where are we going to go? All kidding aside, I’m glad it’s [...]
