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TRIPLE MAIN LIGHTS Looking for a soft light with a lot of punch? You’ve come to the right chapter. But the triple main light technique is different in that each light is a parabolic aimed into a 36-inch white umbrella. For this approach, I set the lights in a loose semicircle or with all three…

Just the added day added photos of the Olympus E-P5 mirrorless camera were leaked, and now acknowledgment to added leaks (via Mobile01 and 43Rumors), added blueprint of the camera accept aswell been revealed. So far what we do apperceive of the E-P5 is that it will be a 16MP with a angry LCD display. According…

If you’ve been broken amid Samsung’s NX300 and NX1000 mirrorless cameras, you should apperceive the aggregation has clearly breach the aberration with its new NX2000. While it acceptable will not amplitude NEX-3N lovers abroad from Sony, the $650 NX2000 is alone a Benjamin added than Sammy’s lower-end NX1000 and packs the aforementioned 3D-capable DRIMe IV…

Technologists accept been cartoon afflatus from the insect apple for a continued time. And association alive on robotics absolutely assume to adulation their creepy-crawlies and active arthropods. Advisers at the University of Illinois are searching to our eight-legged planet mates, not for advancement lessons, but as a advertence for a new camera design. The arrangement…

Update: Just to clear the air, the 503CW has been in production for 17 years — the V System in any form has been active since 1957, since before digital was even a twinkle in Hasselblad’s eye. Almost by definition, Hasselblad is a company steeped in tradition — it’s hard to be ultra-trendy when your…

If your camera arsenal includes a 5D Mark III, prepare to get your download on. Earlier today, Canon released a major firmware update for the hit DSLR — version 1.2.1 enables clean, uncompressed HDMI output with simultaneous LCD display and recording to CF or SD cards, along with cross-type autofocus for apertures as small as…

It’s both possible and practical to use more than one light and modifier, together, to create a main light that will give your images a look that’s beautiful and unusual. Yes, it does take a little more time because you’ll need to correctly meter the situation, but it’s worth it. You’re reading this because you…

Even if you have only one flash unit at your disposal, you can create stunning imagery if you plan your attack in a logical fashion. We know, of course, that large, broad light sources will deliver an even spread of soft light. These sources are almost always large softboxes or umbrellas and, while there is…

There are few lighting effects more evocative than the silhouette. While showing line and form to great advantage, and without the visual detraction of many body “flaws,” it’s the very fact that so much of the image is left to the viewer’s imagination that makes the silhouette so successful. Just as there are many ways…

A bare-tubed strobe is about the closest one can get to a true “point” light source. Without any modifiers, not even a basic parabolic reflector, the light will emulate sunlight, and its specularity, sharpness, and deep shadows will increase as the light is moved farther from the subject. While this light may not be especially…