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Everything on the Tangents blog is through\u00a0a\u00a0steady accumulation of writing\u00a0on photography.\u00a0A\u00a0few\u00a0articles I wrote for a camera club newsletter in the 1990’s\u00a0became\u00a0the initial exploratory posts in 2001 on my\u00a0PlanetNeil website. One of the\u00a0landmarks was when I started posting a series of articles on PlanetNeil on the topic of flash photography<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0These became the flagship articles of the website\u00a0on which the rest was built up.<\/p>\n From these articles, my\u00a0books on flash photography and lighting<\/a>\u00a0grew as well.<\/p>\n The initial trigger for all this was my presentation to other photographers during a mini photography convention in Mystic, CT\u00a0on\u00a0Jan 2nd, 2006. There were 28 of us –\u00a0all members of the Digital Wedding Forum. The mini-convention\u00a0\/ get-together was\u00a0arranged as a means of networking. I was asked to do two presentations. For the first one, I decided to hone my numerous postings on various photography forums, into a cohesive presentation on using on-camera flash effectively<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It was really nice meeting the other photographers, and talk shop.\u00a0As you can see in these photos of me in action during the presentation, I use my hands a lot! It’s true … I’m one of those people who can’t talk if they can’t move their hands.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was astonished by the response the presentation received from everyone. I initially thought the topic\u00a0might be too elementary in its nature to keep the attention of other photographers, but it appeared that the presentation brought some things\u00a0together. Perhaps it was that digital photography had changed how readily TTL flash could be used, and not everyone had adapted yet.<\/p>\n A few weeks later I turned my presentation\u00a0into the\u00a0online tutorial\u00a0series,\u00a0techniques in using on-camera flash<\/a>. Response to this on numerous photography forums was great. So a big thank you to everyone who has replied to any of the posts on Tangents – you’ve helped built this photography resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Tangents blog started, more or less Everything on the Tangents blog is through\u00a0a\u00a0steady accumulation of writing\u00a0on photography.\u00a0A\u00a0few\u00a0articles I wrote for a camera club newsletter in the 1990’s\u00a0became\u00a0the initial exploratory posts in 2001 on my\u00a0PlanetNeil website. One of the\u00a0landmarks was when I started posting a series of articles on PlanetNeil on the topic of Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,46],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-photography-workshop","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33726,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/33726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/workshop\/dwf-ct-talk-05.jpg\")
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