My Phottix Odin flash triggers just arrived, and oh, man, it’s like Christmas came early at my house. Finally a gear-maker has delivered all the features I’ve been wanting in a flash trigger for years! TTL Metering? – Check High Speed Sync? – Check Second Curtain Sync? – Check Manual Power Settings? – Check Multiple [...]
Posts under ‘Event Photography’
Phottix Strato Flash Trigger – Now Even Better!
If you follow my product reviews at my photography training website, you probably know that the Phottix Strato has long been my favorite radio trigger for off-camera flash photography. (If you want to learn why, you can watch my video review of the Strato.) Well, the geniuses at Phottix have just improved on perfection by [...]
Book Review: ON CAMERA FLASH: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography, by Neil van Niekerk
I have a serious impulse-buying problem at my local camera store. The other day I went in for a $5 lens cap and came out with $75 worth of stuff, including the book ON CAMERA FLASH: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography by Neil van Niekerk. I should know better than to even peek [...]
Meetups, Models, and Photo Retouching
Last week I participated in a “Models and Photographers” Meetup event where I took the photo at left. If you’re an aspiring photographer, or even a pro looking to meet new models or experiment with new techniques, I highly recommend using Meetups (www.meetup.com) as a low-cost, low-stress way to get out in the field and [...]
Gearing up for Burning Man
Preparing for Burning Man is only slightly less daunting than packing for a polar expedition — or perhaps a mission to Mars is a better analogy. Each year my packing list grows longer and more complex (it now spans 8 pages of closely-spaced typing), and each year I nevertheless forget several important items and end [...]
Flash Photography with the Canon OC-E3 Off Camera Shoe Cord: Burning Man Film Festival
In a previous post I wrote about shooting an indoor event in a dark warehouse with the Lumiquest 80/20 with on-camera flash. Today we’re going to look at another option for event photography: using the Canon OC-E3 Off Camera Shoe Cord (or a generic equivalent) to get the flash off the camera. If you want [...]
How to Take Better Photos at Burning Man (and Beyond!)
The annual Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert is a photographer’s dream: A surreal landscape populated by bizarre machines, monstrous, mind-boggling art projects, and the world’s most outrageously costumed characters all trying to outdo each other with sheer creativity. Each year approximately 50,000 people attend this weeklong event, and for many photographers it [...]
New Year’s Eve Party Challenge: How to Shoot an Event in a Dark Warehouse
If you’d like to view the photos before reading about it, see New Year’s Eve Party. It’s the worst possible conditions for photography: a vast, crowded warehouse, minimal light, and no ceiling to bounce a flash from. But somehow we’ve gotta light this scene! We know that on-camera flash sucks and will make everything look [...]
