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External Flash
September 1st, 2011
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 Pro External Flash gun Light for Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS10 TZ20 TZ22 ZS8 TZ18 USA  US $59.86
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 NEW OLYMPUS FL 300R EXTERNAL FLASH FOR PEN CAMERAS US $189.00
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Question: What does an external flash do for a camera?
I finally made the jump from pocket point-and-shoot to a "bridge" super zoom Canon Powershot SX10IS. Having a nice camera has me more interested in photography than ever before.
That being said, what does an external flash add that the built-in flash can't do? Will this make indoor pics even better? Are they hard to figure out how to balance (or whatever you call it... adjust)? Are they a worthy addition to a novice photographer such as myself?
Answer: An external flash such as 430EX is much more powerful than the build in flash. The build in flash is close to the lens axis and therefore you are likely to get a pictures with peoples in red eyes. Also people's faces look flat because there is no shadow.
With an external flash, you can mount it on top of the camera or use a flash bracket with a off-camera cord. You can bounce it or even use it with a small softbox. It opens a lot more options.
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Question: How will an external flash improve my pictures on my DSLR?
I own a Canon 40D and i love take pictures and love learning about Photography.
I'm thinking about buying an external flash, mabe the Canon 580 exii and i'm wondering how much benefit and what difference an external Flash would make to a picture that was taken with the same same settings with it's built in flash.Answer: If you simply put it on your camera and shoot away, it will help very little, as the previous posted said. If you take time to really learn how to use it, you can vastly improve your portraits both indoors and outdoors. Read "On-Camera Flash" by Neil van Niekerk and you will be amazed at the results you can get when the available light is not sufficient. You can see his articles on flash techniques here:
http://www.planetneil.com/tangents/
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Studio Lighting Kit
August 31st, 2011
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 1600w Photo Studio Video Continuous Lighting Kit Photography Softbox Light Stand US $122.95
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 10 Light 2000W Photo Studio Soft Box Lighting Kit 10 Stand 2 Backdrop Video Set US $236.95
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Cheap Studio Lighting
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Question: Is this studio lighting kit...?
I am turning my spare room into a home studio, would this lighting kit be sufficient to start out with, or do you think I need something different?
http://alienbees.com/digi.html
Answer: AlienBee makes a very good product and they earned the great reputation they have.
It should almost do the basics and it's a little low powered for my taste. It should work fine under the circumstances, but you may find you want to shoot on location occassionally. I would spend the extra money and get at least one B800.
The reason that I say 'almost' do the basics, is that most lighting can be broken down to 3 lights and modifiers, though extremely good shots can be done with two lights. In fact, if you start off mastering one light, then add another, etc., you will pretty well have mastered lighting. However, three is the most flexible and convenient number of lights.
As others have mentioned, you can use a camera mounted hotshoe flash in conjunction with this kit, but it doesn't have to be mounted on the camera.
Probably the most important additions to the lights will be various modifiers, like bounces, gobos (go betweens), etc. A bounce does very nicely as a fill, freeing up a flash to use for something else. Many items can be used as bounces so it is often possible to improvise instead of buy. Bounces, gobos, snoots and most of the other strange things photographers use to modify light were all developed from things that photographers put together themselves using whatever they had available.
A white door propped up is a full length bounce. Cost? Just taking it off the hinges and putting it back up.
A white sheet is a bounce, or a shoot through diffuser. Cost, stripping the bed and making it back up, or folding it back up and putting it with the linens. White fabric outer shower curtains, same thing.
Need a silver bounce? Car window heat shields are good and aluminum foil has never gone out of style.
Some 'A' clamps will be really handy - any decent hardware store.
Some good books on lighting will really help. I can recommend:
'Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers, Christopher Grey, Amherst Media.
'The Best of Photographic Lighting - Techniques and Images for Digital Photographers, Bill Hurter, Amherst Media
'Learning to Light - A practical guide to photographic lighting for the amateur', Roger Hicks & Frances Schultz, Amphoto
'Studio Photography - Essential Skills', John Child, Focal Press
'The Lighting Cookbook', Jenni Bidner, Amphoto.
'The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography', Jenni Bidner & Eric Bean, Amphoto.
The secret to lighting is thinking about what happens to it on the way to the subject, what happens after it hits the subject, and building your lighting up, step by step. Once you have your lighting setups worked out, it's a matter of simply plugging the right subject into the right lighting. At least for portraiture. With slight variations, your lighting will be pretty much the same for every subject and lighting effect you want to use.
You will need a flash meter. An inexpensive one that does as good a job as my Gossen, which costs several times more, is the Polaris. It's even simpler to use than the Gossen.
The hot lights mentioned are an inexpesive initial alternative, but they have some non-trivial downsides.
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