20th
August
2007
Mark W. Lewis wrote a wonderful little article called Top 10 Lies told to Naive Photographers, Artists and Designers where he covers the top ten ways to give away your work when you should be getting paid big bucks.
I’ve only listed the lies but he has some great commentary to help put things into perspective.
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6th
June
2007
One of the things I wanted to do with this site (aside from flaunting Julia’s mad Skillz) was to offer tips and tricks we learned as we grew. With that in mind, I wanted to share a couple things I found via Stobist. First is a video of a behind the scenes photo [...]
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15th
April
2007
Stobist has become one of my favorite sites. Mostly because I have no idea how to use our new flash. If you’re interested to learn more about flash photography, check them out.
At Strobist, our goal is to promote more effective use of small, shoe-mount flashes. To teach you to use your small strobe [...]
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11th
April
2007
With the addition of the Speedlite 580EX it occured to me that we needed more power to unleash the full potential of our new toy, I mean tool.
The new external Compact Battery Pack CP-E3 improves flash recycle times significantly and increases the number of firings before batteries need to be replaced.
The pack takes optional rapid-change [...]
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6th
April
2007
We’ve been asked to photograph the wedding of some good friends in a few weeks. The challenge for us has been that the wedding is scheduled for dusk - which means low-light photography. To photograph in low-light you need either a faster f-stop or added light. of course, a faster lens still [...]
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