May 29, 2008
The pages on this website that deals with on-camera flash photography have just been translated into French by Melina Barrals. ~ PlanetNeil en Français ~
Melina thank you for the hard work on this. Hopefully your efforts will affect and help inspire other non-English-speaking photographers.
The French translation joins the other translations of this website:
Chinese - translation by Tom Lan
Italian – translation by Sandra Luoni
Polish – translation by Bartosz Jastrzebski
Comments (3)
May 24, 2008

This was a first for me – a couple who high-five each other after the first kiss!
(This was from a wedding last year.)
My settings : 1/100th @ f3.2 @ 32oo ISO.
Yes … 3200 ISO. I couldn’t use flash and I needed a hand-holdable shutter speed with the 70-200mm zoom. Even though it is a stabilised lens, I do need a shutter speed that is fairly fast to stop any movement. (Or stops movement enough.)
So why this photo?
(more…)
Comments (24)
May 14, 2008



a club in Manhattan on Tuesday, past midnight
Canon 1D mk3, Canon 50mm f1.2 // 1/25th @ f1.2 @ 32oo iso
Comments (9)
May 11, 2008
Here’s a question that comes up often in emails I receive: Do I use a diffuser of some kind outdoors or do I just use direct flash, with the flash in the straight ahead position.
The simple answer is that yes, outdoors I most often shoot with my speedlight straight-on with no diffuser or light modifier, especially if I only use my speedlight for fill-flash.

But then again, the answer is not quite that simple – so let’s take this back a few steps:
(more…)
Comments (70)
May 5, 2008

This image from the recent photo-session with Amy and Nick in Manhattan received a number of comments and questions about the technique. The basic camera settings for several sequences of images here, were 1/20th (at f8) and 1/10th @ f11. The image above was one of a sequence at 1/20th. But there’s more to it …
(more…)
Comments (13)