High Tech Flash, the power of light

Nissin is back on the market again with some cool idea, or not? the launch a couple of new stuff that they said it's high tech.. let see what imean.

Color and Auto Rotate Display bears simple and user friendly features of our design concept

The Color Display will automatically follow camera angle in different position and six icons interface gives user friendly operation and representing different menus – Auto, TTL, Manual/Av, Multi, Wireless TTL (Master/Remote) and Customer Setting.

Light it digital strobist magazine

Light It: The How-To Magazine for Studio Lighting and Off-Camera Flash is the first digital photography lighting magazine from Scott Kelby and KelbyTraining.com made exclusively for the Apple iPad. It features the industry’s top experts on photography lighting, studio lighting, small camera flash, portrait lighting, location lighting and more. Readers will also find plenty of lighting tips and tricks, a section just for beginners, interviews with the pros, and news about the latest gear. Light it is for photographers of all skill-levels who use lighting or want to explore lighting concepts.

Greenpeace: Voices of change. Shot on Canon 5dmkII

The Sandpit

The Sandpit

by Sam O'Hare

More of Sam’s work can be found at the Aero Film website as well as his own personalphotography blog and his Twitter page.

©Christoph Martin Schmid

By Sara Lando -- There is something about Berlin photographer Christoph Martin Schmid's work that makes the viewer uneasy. His images are suspended, eerie and polished to the point they seem to transcend reality. His ability to compress a whole story into one single frame has allowed him to land international advertising campaigns and become widely recognized.

Today we go behind the scenes with this image from his Scream!!series.
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For technical and practical reasons, the image was shot in two parts.

It finally happened!

Metrophoto Hothouse New York finally happened.. thank's to Sachie and specially Oly Ruiz for making this happen..

It was almost a whole day of shooting and it's pretty cool when we started shooting in middle of the Highline park, we were about 13 shooters and 2 models (the asian couple). just imagine how cool is that. all the people who about to pass us stop and look at the models and start asking "who is that celebrity''? they all thought that the two are celebrity. but anyway in the end we stop by the nearest park and sachie start giving certificate.

Westcott Apollo rivals come in all shapes and sizes

The Apollo from Westcott is a square softbox known for its quick assembly. The distinctive light modifier opens, closes and mounts like an umbrella, making it ideal for location photography. It comes in 28″ and 50″ square models. At a recommended retail price of $166.45 for the small one, however, the Apollo isn’t cheap, and some photographers have been on the lookout for a lower-cost equivalent.

Phottix have announced a new product called the Easy-Up Umbrella Softbox, designed to be “ready to use in seconds – no fighting with rods and speed rings”. It comes in square (70*70cm) and rectangular (60*90cm) and is on sale at a cracking US$57 – a fraction of the price of the Apollo.

Photoloving have also released some of these softboxes in an even wider range of shapes and sizes under their iShoot brand. They offer 60*90cm and 70*70cm models as Phottix, plus a 50*70cm version and an 80cm octagonal one! ThePortable Reflective Umbrella Softboxes are sold in US$100 kits including light stands and adapters. The softboxes are also available separately for around $50 (you have to ask directly).

As well as the new releases from Phottix and iShoot, we also spotted similar softboxes from Nice at Interphoto Shanghai, suggesting there may be even more brands and sellers on the horizon.

So are these cheap Apollo-esque softboxes going to give Westcott a run for their money? The company don’t seem to think so. In a statement, the Westcott team said,

I am rubber you are glue! The first official "Bounce" meetup. Reflectors only!

yesterday we had a meet up from tampa bay strobist,

the main concept is to shoot without any strobe's, just reflector.

im not really on to ambient light and because of that

i ended up holding the reflector so my groupmate's can shoot.

They provide 5 or 6 models in the shoot. and all the members are

split in numbers of group. each group will have a turn on each model.

and the picture above was one of the few shot that i took while holding the reflector.

light it, shoot it, re-touch it

me and my friend's from our photography group joined the seminar of Scott Kelby training on orlando this morning.

it was great, there is a lot of people who joined and as well as the sponsor booth outside the seminar room, they got B&h Photo and bunch of DVD tutorial's and book's that will put your photoshop skill's to the limit.

this photo on the left was taken during out photoshoot the other day in a lake just beside downtown Lakeland.

For me i learned stuff like how to light your subject, coposition, and the most thing i probably like is on how Scott Kelby teach one by one on how to propper re-touch your photo's and postprocess it.