Thursday, July 29th, 2010

The Northern KY Wedding, Fashion & Portrait Photographers met at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, KY.  What a beautiful Church.   What a beautiful Church.  Tammy Bryan is the group leader and she was able to convince  a beautiful young bride to be to model for us in the church.  Emily will be [...]

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I’ve been using eBay Poverty Wizards from Gadget Infinity (GI)  to remotely fire my flashes until I can get my hands on the Radio Poppers or the new Pocket Wizard TTL radio triggers.
I can’t say I’ve been crazy in love with my GI Poverty Wizards.  Sure, they’re better than running sync cables all over the [...]

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Another  home game gave me the opportunity to photograph some more basketball and to continue to tweak the lighting in the gym. Once again I used the SB800 and SB600 cross lighting the gym. Again I mounted the lights in the abandoned clock baskets about 10 feet up. This time I [...]

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How does that beauty dish adjust anyway?  That’s the big question and it’s the thing I did not explain it very well.  So here goes.  Really, it is just a built up mirror on three bolts that can slide in and out of the dish.  The big thing is that each dish is likely to [...]

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I’ve recieved several requests for a “how to” on the adjustable part of the beauty dish.  I should be able to get some pictures and improved instructions loaded up in the next few days.  Keep an eye out although I tried to describe it below if you just can’t wait! 

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The beauty dish is a light modifier that provides sort of an intermediate result between a soft box and a bare bulb.  The beauty dish has been said to provide a light for beautiful people because it can show all of the imperfections in skin – especially if used wrong.  This is true when used [...]

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