The Strobist
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| Blog Name: | The Strobist |
| Url: | http://strobist.blogspot.com/2008/10/and-now-your-mo... |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | photography, lighting, camera |
| Description: | This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level. Or the next ten levels. Here, you'll find everything you need to know about how to more effectively use your small speedlights. There are more than 1,000 articles about lighting. Over two million photographers from around the world have learned small-flash lighting techniques from this site. We're thinking you can, too. Why small flashes? Because that's all you really need start your journey into high-end lighting techniques. Larger strobes have their place, but they tend to spend a lot of time in trunks and stuffed under beds. But the small, everyday strobe is always in your waistpack ready to go. And it can yield great results when used more effectively and creatively. For example, the photo of the wind tunnel at the top left was lit with one small, shoe-mount flash - set on only 1/4 power. See? You don't necessarily need all that heavy, expensive gear. Heck, we don't limit ourselves to small flashes, either. You'll find all kinds of ideas for other ways to light on the cheap. (You'll never walk down the lighting aisle at Home Depot the same way again.) Think of Strobist as a lighting idea bank, run by and for the most enthusiastic DSLR photographers. The site has over 230,000 regular readers, our discussion group has more than 30,000 members, and we are all about sharing ideas and techniques for small-flash lighting. There are no secrets here. We love clear, step-by-step instructions. If you are a student, we hope that you will benefit from the experience of others. If you are a seasoned pro, stick around and you might even pick up an idea or two. If you are an amateur, we are happy to have you, too. We started out as a site for professionals. But some of you "amateurs" learn so fast we have given up trying tell the difference between your photos and the "professional" ones. And that's a very good thing. In fact, 85% of the readers that frequent this site are amateurs. Using small flashes and a little creativity, here is an continually updated gallery of their most recent work. Each of those photographers was taken by a photographer who at one point did not know the first thing about off-camera lighting. Join us as we learn, while at the same time making sure we do not take ourselves too seriously. __________________________________ You're reading the welcome page, but the daily front page is here. The core eduation portion of Strobist is divided into two areas: Lighting 101, and On Assignment. And Lighting 102, a free, interactive, comprehensive lighting course, is underway right now. (You can easily catch up at your own pace.) The Lighting 101 series begins with you getting your flash off of the camera. Learn how to position it, clamp it, synch it, bounce it, soften it, snoot it, cookie it and balance it with ambient light. (Don't know what a "cookie" is? Suffice to say that office plant in the corner is a lighting tool.) The photography world is digital now, which gives you a wonderful little screen on the back of your cameras to learn from both your mistakes and your successes on a real-time basis. And there is no better way to learn than to constantly make interesting mistakes. And for the record, we dig interesting mistakes more than boring successes. In the On Assignment series, we'll take real-world lighting examples and break them down to show you how it was done. This is where you learn how the pros apply the basic skills you are learning in Lighting 101. Where applicable, we will link the appropriate Lighting 101 lessons with the corresponding On Assignment shots. And vice versa. The idea is to build your skills while you learn how to apply them in real-world situations. And if Strobist is a day job, the after-work watering hole would be Strobist's Flickr Group. There is a huge group flash-enabled photographers waiting to answer questions and share ideas about lighting techniques. Throw your photos up, ask questions, get answers, make pithy comments - go nuts. If you are not yet a member of Flickr, you really should be. It's photography gone viral. Want to learn more? There are lots of good books out there. Check out our bookshelf for some top-notch light reading. There are imaginative photographers out there doing creative and innovative work. You'll see in-depth interviews popping up on the front page periodically. So, try out the lighting courses. It's all free. Or you can jump right into the deep end by clicking on any photo on this page to go to the corresponding On Assignment post, to see exactly how it was made. If the explanation looks a little Greek to you, better hit the Lighting 101 section. Sit back and read, soak it all up and charge your brain until your ready light glows red. |
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Shedding Light on the Gender Gap
I am getting ready to hop on a plane to Mexico, where I will be teaching for Santa Fe Workshops next week. So if emails go unanswered, or comments are a little slow to moderate, thanks for your patience.Interesting fact: My SFW class, whom I have already met via email, is 75% female. This is interesting only in that the readership of this site is overwhelmingly male. Ninety-four percent, last I checked.Which brings up a question that has been bouncing around in my mind for over a year now: Why
I am getting ready to hop on a plane to Mexico, where I will be teaching for Santa Fe Workshops next week. So if emails go unanswered, or comments are a little slow to moderate, thanks for your patience.Interesting fact: My SFW class, whom I have already met via email, is 75% female. This is interesting only in that the readership of this site is overwhelmingly male. Ninety-four percent, last I checked.Which brings up a question that has been bouncing around in my mind for over a year now: Why
This Finn O'Hara Shoot Probably will not Fit in the Conference Room.
Holy crap. I am at a loss for words after looking at the scale of production involved in this Finn O'Hara shoot of the Toronto Maple Leafs.You see work by guys like this all of the time, but you rarely get a good look behind the scenes. And granted, he did end up shooting 53 people. So when you amortize out a "civic works"-size set, it actually starts to make sense.But still. Just … wow.Check out his blog for more his cool, eclectic work.__________[EDIT: Fully expected in the comments: "How can I do this with a D40x and an SB-600?"]
Holy crap. I am at a loss for words after looking at the scale of production involved in this Finn O'Hara shoot of the Toronto Maple Leafs.You see work by guys like this all of the time, but you rarely get a good look behind the scenes. And granted, he did end up shooting 53 people. So when you amortize out a "civic works"-size set, it actually starts to make sense.But still. Just … wow.Check out his blog for more his cool, eclectic work.__________[EDIT: Fully expected in the comments: "How can I do this with a D40x and an SB-600?"]
Brain Food: Three New Offerings
Over the last two weeks, three new educational items of interest have popped up on the radar. There are new video tutorials from Dave Honl and JoeyL, and John Harrington has evolved his Best Business Practices book into a magnum opus, 500+ page second edition. More on all three, and which ones may or may not be for you, inside.__________Best Biz 2.0
Over the last two weeks, three new educational items of interest have popped up on the radar. There are new video tutorials from Dave Honl and JoeyL, and John Harrington has evolved his Best Business Practices book into a magnum opus, 500+ page second edition. More on all three, and which ones may or may not be for you, inside.__________Best Biz 2.0
A Filthy Language Primer, Courtesy Chase Jarvis
At first glance, this appears merely to be a very cool behind-the-scenes look at the high-speed flash shooting Chase did last month in New Zealand. Lotsa high-tech flash talk, impossible sequences, killer pics -- yadda, yadda, yadda.But the real takeaway here is of the etymological variety.To wit, the adjective "sick." Which, of course, means "good." (Back in my day we went with the much less confusing "bad" when we meant "good.")But what if something is really sick. As in, sicker than sick? That calls for the word, "filthy." And if it is filthier than filthy, then of course you'll want to
At first glance, this appears merely to be a very cool behind-the-scenes look at the high-speed flash shooting Chase did last month in New Zealand. Lotsa high-tech flash talk, impossible sequences, killer pics -- yadda, yadda, yadda.But the real takeaway here is of the etymological variety.To wit, the adjective "sick." Which, of course, means "good." (Back in my day we went with the much less confusing "bad" when we meant "good.")But what if something is really sick. As in, sicker than sick? That calls for the word, "filthy." And if it is filthier than filthy, then of course you'll want to
Ray Flash vs. Orbis vs. AlienBees ABR800 Review, Pt. 1
Ring light has, for me, gone from a curiosity to what I consider to be an essential part of my lighting kit. I do not always use it when lighting people, but I always bring it. And I frequently end up using it -- but rarely as a main or only light. In this first of a two-part series comparing ring flashes, we'll be taking a look at the two direct competitors in the bunch: The Ray Flash and Orbis ring flash adapters. The ABR-800,
Ring light has, for me, gone from a curiosity to what I consider to be an essential part of my lighting kit. I do not always use it when lighting people, but I always bring it. And I frequently end up using it -- but rarely as a main or only light. In this first of a two-part series comparing ring flashes, we'll be taking a look at the two direct competitors in the bunch: The Ray Flash and Orbis ring flash adapters. The ABR-800,
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