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Snow snaps
In preparation for an upcoming two-day Country Photography Workshop I am organizing with a colleague on 3+4 April (ask me about it!), I took a few snaps in the snow yesterday with the 1D Mark IV....
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Tip of the day: When using your flash outside, you have to be careful: you cannot exceed your camera’s maximum flash synch speed – normally around 1/200th second. This means in bright light you cannot...
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In the eye of the…
Take a day outside. You want to shoot a snap of a pretty model. If you are Uncle Fred, you shoot in the “AUTO” mode. Or in Program, or even in Aperture mode, with a large aperture (low “F”-number), to...
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What’s this Hi-Speed flash thing again?
A reminder for all you speedlighters. Say you want a shot like this, taken a few days ago,with your Nikon D90 or whatever SLR you have equipped with an external flash (like an SB900): Yes, direct...
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Beginner’s Flash Mistake
Has this ever happened to you? You want an outside picture with a blurred background. So you set your aperture to a low number, and click, a nice enough picture. But your subject is a little dark, so...
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Bubutbut
I often, of course, say this - “Limit: when using flash, you cannot exceed your camera’s fastest sync speed (usually 1/250th second)”. And then almost as often, I hear the following objection: “But...
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