After reading our 2nd ringlight article (click here) our buddy Lance of BadDog Photo, mentioned to me the Alien Bee ABR800 “Ringflash”.
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(photo courtesy of Alien Bee)
For about $400 (US), you get a nice ringlight with a variety of mounting options.
According to BadDog, the available options might make it versitile enough to be useful after the [...]

Ever get wildly over-exposed shots because the flash is too bright or too close? Does the light from the flash look harsh and unflattering? Here are two easy ways to fix problems with your camera’s flash…

Questions! We’ve been getting questions, so lets have some answers now!
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Betty asks:” What is Gaffer’s Tape“? I’ve been seeing it mentioned in a lot of articles on photography and have no idea what it is!”

The key to improving our photography is an ongoing understanding of light: how it behaves, how it looks best on different faces, how it bounces around creating different effects. Here are a few ideas about learning how to “see the light.”

Getty Images recently launched a new podcast that looks interesting. Tara (of Edelman for Getty Images) does a better job explaining the project, so here’s a section of her email to me.
Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images, will interview leading global photographers, giving the audience insight into life behind the lens at the [...]

Dust bites.
Every time you change your lens on your DSLR camera, or you zoom in or out with your zoom lens, dust gets into the camera and finds it’s way onto the imaging-sensor.
This shows up as dark-spots in your photographs and is especially noticable in areas of broad, even color such as the sky in [...]

This was sooo last year (or was it even the year before…), but I finally got up my “My blog is worth…” graphic.
Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, I’ve created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link [...]

So my youngest son is getting four molars right now.  And let me tell you, there is NOTHING else going on in the world right now, as far as he’s concerned.  The last three days have been…uh…noisy.