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How To Build Your Own Flash Bracket

June 25, 2015 by Robert Visconti 3 Comments

Keeping on pace with my last post regarding external flash units, I’ve decided to show you one of my “do-it-yourself” (DIY) projects: building an external flash bracket. Having the majority of my lenses fitted with the same quick-release plates, this flash bracket mounts to all of them with ease and full versatility. Check it out:

Assembled Flash Bracket
Assembled Flash Bracket
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Filed Under: Tips, Wildlife Tagged With: bracket, diy, flash, red eye, telephoto

Benefits of Using a Flash Extender

May 19, 2015 by Robert Visconti 7 Comments

Flash ExtenderNote from the editor (Steve): This is a post by our newest writer: Robert Visconti. He primarily photographs wildlife (especially birds), and he’s got some really cool ideas for DIY projects and optimizing your camera gear. In this post, he talks about using flash extenders and how to make one work better.

A flash extender is just that: it extends the flash’s output to a much greater distance by using a Fresnel lens. A flash without the extender literally “floods” the entire subject area with light. The extender takes this conical shape of light and concentrates it into a beam, hence its name. [Read more…] about Benefits of Using a Flash Extender

Filed Under: Tips, Wildlife Tagged With: artificial, beamer, extender, flash, light, natural, nature, photo, photography

What To Do When Your Memory Card Fails

June 14, 2011 by Steve Berardi 2 Comments

In a previous post, I talked about a few ways to avoid memory card problems. But, even if you follow all those tips, you’re bound to get a corrupt memory card someday.

Unfortunately, technology doesn’t always work 🙁

So, what do you do when you get home with a memory card full of awesome photos and your computer refuses to read it?

Well, there’s a few simple things you can try, like using another memory card reader or another computer. But, after that, your best option is to try using some data recovery software.

As a software developer, I’ve spent a lot of time recovering data from corrupt hard drives and flash drives, so here are a few lessons I’ve learned along the way: [Read more…] about What To Do When Your Memory Card Fails

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: corrupt, data, fail, failure, flash, format, memory, memory card, photo, read, recover, recovery, restore, usb

How to Photograph Wildflowers with Flash

October 4, 2010 by Rob Neave 11 Comments

Blue Lechenaultia (Lechenaultia biloba) / Photo by Rob Neave
Blue Lechenaultia (Lechenaultia biloba) / Photo by Rob Neave

Note from Steve: This is a guest post written by Rob Neave, of Perth, Western Australia. In this post he talks about an interesting technique for photographing wildflowers with flash.

As always, if youʼre also interested in writing a guest post, please feel free to contact me. Thanks!
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My state of Western Australia is wildflower central for the known universe. For years, I was entranced by their potential as photographic subjects, but could not figure out how to do it. Eventually I bought a book called “Field Photography” by Alfred A Blaker, which showed me how to get decent shots of wildflowers.

Although the techniques presented in Blaker’s book were originally written for film photography, I have been able to also apply them to digital photography and ETTL flash.

The photo above is an example of what you’ll be able to do with these techniques. The flowers in the photo are Blue Lechenaultia. This image shows the detail and depth of field (DOF) we can get with these techniques. It was shot at f/32 and 1/200 with flash. [Read more…] about How to Photograph Wildflowers with Flash

Filed Under: Wildflowers Tagged With: alfred blaker, australia, ettl, field photography, flash, flower, Macro, photography, ring, technique, wild, wildflowers

Galen Rowell’s great book, Inner Game of Outdoor Photography, is now back in print!

June 9, 2010 by Steve Berardi 4 Comments

Galen Rowell is widely known as one of the greatest landscape photographers that ever lived. But, he wasn’t just a photographer: he was also an avid mountain climber and passionate adventurer. He truly loved the natural world: not only observing it, but also participating in it.

Through his pioneering use of graduated neutral density filters, he was able to create some truly amazing images.

Throughout his life, he wrote numerous articles for Outdoor Photographer magazine, as well as a couple of instructional books:

  • Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape
  • Inner Game of Outdoor Photography

Mountain Light is currently not in print, but his other book, Inner Game of Outdoor Photography is finally back in print as an affordable paperback. A book that used to sell for hundreds of dollars used, is now widely available for less than $20! [Read more…] about Galen Rowell’s great book, Inner Game of Outdoor Photography, is now back in print!

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Landscapes Tagged With: adventure, art, book, cognitive, flash, galen rowell, inner game, light, mountain, natural, outdoor, photography, pre-visualizing, review, science, visualization, wilderness

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