flash photography

    This beginner’s guide to using strobes will help you decide what to buy and how to use it
    Mar 15, 2021 John Aldred

    Speedlights and strobes can be quite intimidating to new photographers who’ve never had personal experience with them before. Particularly strobes. They’re really not all that…

    The Godox ML60 – The ultimate lightweight and portable interview light?
    Mar 7, 2021 John Aldred

    The Godox ML60 is an interesting little light. I say little because it’s similar in size to the company’s AD300Pro strobe, which is really tiny….

    You can save a ton of space in your lighting bags with Godox mount modifiers
    Mar 7, 2021 John Aldred

    Over the past several decades, the Bowens mount has become the ubiquitous modifier mount for lights. Created, naturally, by Bowens decades ago, before they went…

    Who should own photos of slaves?
    Feb 24, 2021 Allen Murabayashi

    In 1976 while rummaging through an attic of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in search of old museum publications, editorial assistant Lorna Condon…

    How to use flash if you don’t like photos to look flashy
    Feb 14, 2021 Douglas Fry

      If I lay my cards on the table, in my personal and professional work I prefer to avoid the use of flash in favour…

    This light stand – tripod hybrid is my best stand yet
    Feb 6, 2021 Paul Monaghan

    Over the years, I’ve invested in many ways to hold lighting equipment, but recently I found a light stand that seems to get very little…

    Canon ST-E3-RT Version 2 trigger is basically the original but with 3 new features most can’t use
    Feb 5, 2021 John Aldred

    Canon has announced a new Version 2 of their ST-E3-RT trigger for controlling Canon speedlights off-camera. If you were hoping for some massive upgrade, though,…

    Yongnuo updates its 5-year-old speedlight, launches the YN685 II for Nikon and Canon
    Feb 2, 2021 John Aldred

    The Yongnuo YN685 speedlight was originally released back in 2015. It was one of the first on the market at the time to feature an…

    What is flash recycle time and how/why does it work the way it does?
    Feb 1, 2021 John Aldred

    If there’s one constant when it comes to flash, whether it’s speedlights or strobes, is recycle time. It’s the time you have to wait for…

    Check out these eight 3D printed photo & video tools designed to make your life a little easier
    Jan 21, 2021 John Aldred

    I put off getting a 3D printer for the longest time. I didn’t want to get one just for the sake of having a new…