At a recent seminar (the Hobby/McNally Flash Bus Tour) the subject of the catch light intruded. Commentary from the sage teachers was to minimize its importance. A quick read of the linked Wikipedia article above will give you the theory and practice of catch lights. I belong to several photographic...
At the recent Presentation Summit, I had the opportunity to take 15 presentation professionals/amateur photographers on a field trip to Pacific Beach in San Diego. One of the concepts I hoped to teach was balancing ambient light with flash ala the Strobist. The Pinch: An unsuspecting model strolled...
Who says you have to hold a camera just one or two ways? Same subject-four consecutive shots-four very different looks If you have ever been bored enough to watch a sundial all day you probably have figured out what is different in these four shots. The rose, shot on a cloudy and rainy day was [...]
Flashes in the mirror are more annoying than they appear.
We decided we needed a mascot on our Worldesigns Photo Costa Rica Tours and the Red-eyed Green Tree Frog rose to the top of a list of likely contenders. Our goal was to photograph the small plush toy in a variety of Costa Rica locals for [......
Greetings all. I have returned from my 16-day Costa Rica expedition with Worldesigns Photo Tours and am ready to begin blogging again. The lack of internet access while in Costa Rica means that I have many blog notions piled up and you should be seeing regular posts from me until I leave again for Costa...
Sometimes the simplest solutions arise from watching those who don’t know how, doing. I can remember seeing poorly lit photos caused by my father’s errant finger’s covering the flash. Hmmm, thought I…
If you look back at my article on the Budget Product Shot, you will recall I made a flash diffuser for...
I stumbled across this article on Wired.com today. It seems that anti-paparazzi devices are being developed.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/celebrity-shielding-flashgun-handbag-defeats-paparazzi/
The inevitable arms race between photographer and subject has begun.
Rikk Flohr
Sometimes a more unique photo is waiting in the guise of a dreary downpour. Bored yesterday with working on design-for-print projects, I took a break at lunchtime, put on a macro lens, a ring flash and sat on my front steps pondering the rose bush growing there. It was a high-overcast with wonderful...
If you don't know what a USB flash drive does, it is quite simple. It is a small device that plugs into the USB port of most any computer and holds a large amount of data. Think about it as the floppy disk for a new generation. I remember my first USB flash drive quite well. It held 128 MB of data...
About a week ago there was an announcement from Adobe about the upcoming Acrobat 9 . One of the biggest features is that Acrobat has native support for Adobe Flash technology. This means you could embed Flash video inside of a PDF file. The new version will begin shipping on June 26th and I'll be...
I've talked many times about the very cool WildPresenter Pro application. Sometimes it is hard to describe exactly what it does because it does so many things. I guess that is why the folks at Wildform have released a new version and renamed it Flair . That's a pretty good description of what...