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If you’ve been to the Strobist site and read Lighting 101 you’ve certainly seen references to Pocket-Wizards. These remote flash triggers give you far more working distance (over 1500 feet) than cords or wireless systems built into some DSLRs. Many professional photographers use Pocket-Wizards.
Using a unit on the camera as a Transmitter allows triggering [...]

It’s near that time here in the States for Fourth of July fireworks. Bring your camera and tripod to the event and come home with great photos. The New York Institute of Photography (NYIP) has again posted their fireworks articles. Just scroll down past the Declaration to get to the links for the articles.
On your [...]

When you need to light up a room or want to use multiple flash units for portraits, slave flashes can be your answer. Studio flash systems incorporate slaves and some small hotshoe flashes do too. And there are some camera flashes specifically designed as a slave for your P&S digital camera.
A slave flash is triggered [...]

If you’re lucky enough to have a camera and flash combination that supports wireless communication you are all set. Turn on the wireless mode, pull the flash off the camera and start shooting. Otherwise you’ll need an off camera cord.

The off camera cords will cost you between $50 and $100 and most are 6 foot [...]

The first educational piece of the Lighting 102 tutorial is up on Strobist. Titled Unit 1.1 – Position (Angle) it talks about off axis light and learning how to see light direction. By reading the material and doing the exercises you’ll learn how light direction can affect your photos.
You’ll see how on-axis light is unflattering, [...]

(posted on the old Blog)
This is the last post to the Blogspot Blog. The move is complete to the new home at TeachMeToShoot.com/blog, other than some tweaks to the layout and such. I’ll have that done by the end of the week.
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