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The simple question of “how do I set a faster shutter speed whilst using a flash” led me to discover FP High Speed Sync on my camera (just called High Speed Sync with Canon). Have you ever been looking at a scene, switched on your flash and had your camera dramatically over expose a photo or change your carefully selected aperture? If the answer is yes, then you need to know about High Speed Sync.
By Jack Berglund
On April 26, 711, Tariq ibn Ziyad and his army invaded Gibraltar and famously ordered his men to ‘burn the boats’ so there would be no thought of retreat their minds. This feet was repeated by Cortez many centuries later in South America and no doubt by other commanders throughout history. This somewhat extreme form of motivation seems to have had the desired affect in both cases with the respective armies triumphing.
And so it was this weekend when I headed out armed with nothing but a 10.5mm Nikon fish eye lens. I didn’t set fire to my more usual collection of lenses (I simply left them at home) but the affect was similar. I had no choice but to keep snapping with the fish eye even when I wished I had something more conventional to hand. Read more
If you’re stuck in a rut with your photography, there are lots of potential sources of inspiration (I’ll come back to this theme on more than one occasion). One simple way to get yourself off the couch and try some new things is to rent lens for the weekend. Try something wider (shorter focal length) or longer (longer focal length) than you currently own to get a new perspective. Fisheye lenses are also fun.
The good news is that many rental companies count the weekend as a single day of rental. Better than that, if you’re in New York, Adorama have a weekend rate which starts on Thursday after 4.30pm with returns on Monday morning and only cost a little more than a single day’s rental. This is a full three days. For example, you can rent a 10.5mm Nikon Fisheye lens for a day for $18 or three days over the weekend for $23.
If you needed an excuse to take a day off work and go somewhere, now you’ve got one…
No, this post is not about bands from Sheffield but you can’t beat a bit of 80 reminiscing: Click for a reminder of the Living in a box video.
Yesterday was a cold and rainy day. Listening to the rain against the window and the wind howl, I was glad to be inside. There is a limit however to what you I can photograph in my one bed apartment without going outside. What if there was a way to experiment and learn about different lighting conditions without leaving the apartment? Simple, build a photography studio.
Space being a consideration here in Manhattan, I decided that a small photography studio was the way to go: not 20 feet across, not 10 feet across, not even 5 feet across. This studio measures 14 inches square! Now clearly you’re not going to be photographing normal size people (not even Tom Cruise will fit) but many of the same principles apply to photographing products, flowers etc as real people. Read more
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