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About Available Power, Being Nice To Earth and Saving Money

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As a child we used to have a special plastic container in the fridge. The battery container. At any given moment it had a about two dozen batteries.

As I grew up and started to use a camera (a used Nikon F70) and a strobe (A used SB28), and then 5 strobes  it was only natural come up with a better system.

A system that would be kind to mother earth on one hand, and will allow me to shoot as much as I want on the other. The system evolved over the years, and will probably keep changing. This is where I stand now.

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Understanding Flash Sync, Shutter Curtains And High Speed Sync

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Photographer Paul Duncan put together a great instructional video explaining what those darn curtains are, and why they matter for flash photography.

This excellent video, uncomplex some of the more complex concepts of flash photography. It explains the illusive T0.5 and T0.1, the concept of flash and front/back curtain and how high speed sync works (pretty clever).

Kinda makes this whole curtain thing simple as a shower curtain.

and if you thought that the video is smart, check Paul’s (Even Smarter) galley, and informative you tube channel.[Read More…]

Poll: What Are Your Goals For 2011?

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2011 definitely has a foot in the door. How’s it treating you? Nicely? I hope so.

[This is not going to be a how to shoot this or that post, but rather a challenging post for you that I hope will help you push yourself more this year as a photographer pro or amateur. (If you just want the how to stuff, feel free to skip this one, some great stuff coming on the next post).]

A while back I spoke about how important it is to have a plan in place if you want to  meet your goals. Of course, It helps to have a goal that you want to meet if you are in the plans making business. And often a goal is the first part of any plan. [picture courtesy Zeke Kamm][Read More…]

Build A Very Cheap Macro Extension Tube

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Have you ever wondered what’s the magical substance inside macro extension tubes? Very often they seem like they are just a piece of thick tube.

Well, that’s because they are. Or, at least the cheaper ones are. Usually the more expensive one have the ability to have the electrical contacts maintain between the lens and the body, all the rest is just a fancy, hollow, empty, light-tight tunnel of air.

Being so simple it is really tempting to make a macro tube out of a, say a hollow light-tight-regular-tube.

Which is exactly what Instructables user snelpiller did.[Read More…]

33% Off Inspiration / Gear Power Combo

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We all love to take great pictures, but sometimes the well of ideas runs dry. All we need is a little inspiration or a new piece of gear to get to work.

This is why I am thrilled to offer this 33% off inspirational/gear promo.

It features both a tool of inspiration and our very own Home Studio Photography eBook for gear.

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The Strobist Corner: Super Simple Gel Holder For “Strobist” Gels

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Here’s the thing. If you are using the “The Strobist Collection” gels from Rosco (which we reviewed here. You know that they are really great. But they are a bit undersized to be velcro-ed to a speedlight. No room on both sides of the gels to attach them to the flash.

Mike Errecart is going to show you how to fix this with a very simple hack after the jump[Read More…]

Convert a $7 Ikea Cutting Board to a Shoulder Video Rig

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With the blast of HDSLR comes the need to create a more comfortable way of shooting video with SLR shaped bodies. You can get one for about $2000 or make your own for about 7$.

All you would need for that is a IKEA cutting boards, a stove, and some pipes.

Yes, I did say IKEA cutting board.[Read More…]

Taking A Step Back To Snap Your Setup

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A shot while back I featured a post called 21 Photographs And Lighting Setups For Every Occasion. Not surprisingly the post featured a collection of amazing photographs along with a snap of the setup that was used to capture those photographs.

So… what’s up with all those photographers taking setup pictures with no artistic value whatsoever. gotta be a reason for that, right? Right.[Read More…]

Controllable Smoke Makes a Huge Cleaning Tab

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A few days ago, Benjamin Von Wong (flickr) posted a photograph called rejection to his photostream. It was quite an extra ordinary piece of work in my mind.

There was a small bit of info in the captions that caught my eyes: “The Behind the Scenes is actually ready… Eva is just waiting for me to finish up the edits”

I guess Eva is done waiting, because f-stoppers just posted the very cool behind the scenes on this one. [Read More…]

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