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PlanetNeil en Français

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

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wedding photography: working with higher ISO settings

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 stabilized lens, I do need a shutter speed that is fairly fast to stop any movement.  (Or stops movement enough.)

So why this photo?

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tuesday night

May 14, 2008

a club in Manhattan on Tuesday, past midnight

Canon 1D mk3, Canon 50mm f1.2 // 1/25th @ f1.2 @ 32oo ISO

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direct fill-flash from your on-camera speedlight

May 11, 2008

using direct fill-flash from your on-camera speedlight

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:

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world in motion …

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 …

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