The Elinchrom BXR series has been a staple monolight for several years, earning respect and logging hours from many pro and enthusiast photographers. The BXR line is now discontinued and the new ELC Pro HD line takes up the mantle. [Read more…]
Colbert Report Takes on Amazon’s Seamless White Background Patent
Last week, we covered Amazon‘s patent for studio photography on a white background. Stephen Colbert caught wind of the patent and had a little fun on his program yesterday. Check out the clip from last night’s show below. [Read more…]
Watch a Face Change While Moving Light Position
We know lighting can change the overall mood and feel of images. It is also amazing just how much it can change the appearance of a person. In this teaser for Opale’s Sparkles and Wine music video, the cinematographer moves the light source rapidly around the face of the star, which causes her face to change as you watch it. [Read more…]
Amazon Patents Studio Photography on Seamless White Background
Amazon has had some pretty revolutionary ideas over the years. The Kindle is awesome. Prime is a great service. And drone delivery may be on the horizon. However, Amazon has gone a bit too far with one of its latest “inventions.”
Amazon Technologies, Inc. (a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.) has legitimately patented studio the common studio photography method of photographing subjects on a seamless white background using a cyclorama and the USPTO actually granted the patent. [Read more…]
4 Lighting Tutorial Videos from Karl Taylor
Karl Taylor has been working on a multi-part series of lighting tutorials for Broncolor. He just published the fourth video in the series on YouTube.
In the fourth video, he shows off some expert dual flash techniques by using a long exposure in a dark studio to fire strobes at different times while removing modifiers in the dark. Really smart stuff.
You can see part one above and the next three in the series are below. [Read more…]
Manfrotto Nanopole Stand and Snap Tilthead
Manfrotto has a new Nanopole light stand and Snap tilthead designed specifically for speedlight shooters. The Nanopole stand has a main column that is easily removed from the legs to quickly convert the stand into a boom pole. [Read more…]
Manfrotto’s New Spectra 1×1 LED Lights
Manfotto announced the Spectra 1×1 LED lights earlier this year and had the new units on display at NAB 2014. The Spectra LED fixtures offer a CRI>90 and are flicker free. [Read more…]
Joe McNally Breaks Down Outdoor Portrait with 3 Speedlights and High F-stop
This short video from Joe McNally breaks down how to use three speedlights for an outdoor portrait with a lot of depth of field. It’s a little heavy on the ads for Adorama, but still a nice 3 minute video with some great little lighting nuggets inside.
If you like this kind of stuff, I highly recommend his book The Hot Shoe Diaries, which is packed with a ton of lighting nuggets like this.
Flashpoint StreakLight Portable Strobe Released
Adorama has released the new StreakLight portable strobe under its in-house Flashpoint brand. The StreakLight offers the form factor of a speedlight and the power output of a monolight. [Read more…]
Ray Flash 2 Ring Light Offers Universal Speedlight Fit
ExpoImaging has released the Ray Flash 2 ring light for speedlights. The Ray Flash 2 offers a more compact design and comes in 2 sizes for taller and shorter DSLR bodies. The larger sized Ray Flash fits cameras like the Canon 60D, 7D 5D Mark III, Nikon D7000, D800, D4 and such, while the smaller Ray Flash 2 model fits Canon Rebel and Nikon D3200 sized cameras. There’s a more complete list on ExpoImaging’s website.
The new ring light adapter is made with a universal speedlight mount and features adjustable height. The center column of the Ray Flash 2 slides up and down to accommodate variations in camera and speedlight heights.
The Ray Flash 2 retails for $139.95 and is available here at B&H Photo.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- …
- 16
- Next Page »