Recent content by Richard King

upside down. I resorted to that one.. worked a treat. hard to BBF and shoot.. bit of a handful that

find the guys who make shop signs, usually found on local industrial estate, they are usually good for offcuts

for shoots like this I'm aiming to get several things sorted 1. reproducibility of lighting. its likely that next week/month you will need to shoot a different fly, but have the same look. so you need a documented setup in terms of product, camera and (flash) light placement, alling with the...

Actually it does apply. In optics calculations, focused light just shifts the apparent light source point of origin.

a small speedlight, is a small hard light source, no matter what shape it is. its probably truer and a more useful observation to say if you have 4 speedlights in your bag, the rectangle ones pack nicer and tighter Or, that on a long shoot, you will be thankful that a pocket full of AA...

same s*** different OS

For giggles, I shot with a colleagues Neolight on a dull day and I wondered if it was even turned on, it was utterly ineffective I then shot with a real flash, which promptly overpowered everything on just 1/4 power. Nuff said. The colleague in question then explained how brilliant it was...

A wall or ceiling

Yes that pile of crap

Maybe the product in question is the rotalux flash.. Yup they use overpowered LED's to flash However the power levels are still poor

For me, its the the way it let's you shoot in AF-C AND AF-S modes at the same time, by just releasing the AF-ON button. Dead handy if you are recompiling, or jumping between static and moving things. Agree that the latest 70-200 is extremely quick to lock on, on my D5 it's almost zen like

I use BBF or MF, in the real world once you have bent your head and fingers round it, you will find it helps get you the shots that you would miss otherwise

1. If your PC is using a static IP address with your router, get it to use DCHP 2. Set the secondary DNS lookup servers on your router to be something other than Googles public server 3.Try getting your router to use the DNS provided by your ISP 4. Delete the files in...

Use a tripod. Shoot several frames 1. A flash frame... 2. Several bracketed ambent frames with lights off 3. A decently exposed ambient frame with lights on 4. Other flash frames for specular highlights, or to kill shadows Windows: sometimes you need a head on flash frame you use this if...

Why should they be large? Parabic surfaces are used in all sorts of applications... Car headlights, torches Garry hits on the real issue, if the curve isn't perfect, the whole effect falls to bits, and the difference between perfect and no good is very small, which is why fabric based...