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Pointers to Better Flash Photography

I used to be an ambient-light photographer and have recently taken the plunge into flash photography. Join me on the journey as I encounter new and better ways to use flash.

I'm still learning and I probably will still be learning for the next few years. It's easy to learn a few tricks, but it takes experience to handle awkward situations, e.g. wanting to capture a certain image but not having the standard kit, so how do you improvise.

As well as links to some of the best static articles, I've included the excerpts only from a few RSS feeds. The best advice I can give is go to those sites and read the articles themselves; the articles belong on those sites....so go there now.

Want more detail on the kit you can use, then have a look at Flash Photography Equipment.

Or my own take on smaller scale photos using common, everyday objects.

Articles on starting and improving in Flash Photography

Links to great articles on flash and strobe photography.

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Strobist

The world's most popular free resource for learnin more...1 point

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planet neil - tangents » flash photography techniques

A great start for learning about flash photography1 point

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How To Use Your Nikon Sb-800 Flash With Softboxes, - ILP

Good ideas for non-studio softboxes0 points

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Nikon Speedlight SB-900 Review by Thom Hogan

A complete review of the Nikon Speedlight SB-900 f more...0 points

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Nikon Speedlight Specifications by Thom Hogan

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Setting your Nikon speedlight / flash to work wirelessly

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Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS) review - OlegNovikov.com

A complete review of the Nikon Creative Lighting S more...0 points

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RadioPopper Blog

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Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras - Part I.

Complete information on Canon Speedlite electronic more...0 points

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Flash Photography - All You Need To Know!

Flash Photography - Do You Need Enlightening. Tips more...0 points

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FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY 101 - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE - Canon Digital ...

FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY 101 - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE Small F more...0 points

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Secrets of Powershot Flash Photography

This small page is intended to share a few ideas a more...0 points

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10 Pieces of Lighting Equipment for under 60 dollars » StudioLighting.net

Once again... the Prince of Cheap is here to save more...0 points

Strobist

Learn How To Light

The best site to improve your flash skills. If you're a complete novice, then have a look at it. If you may find it a bit above your level, no worries, it assumes basic control of exposure, shutter, aperture, etc.
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The Dark Art

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORLD OF DREW GARDNER

The Dark Art
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Lighting umbrellas and other lighting modifiers

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Flash Photography Kit

Useful kit for starting out in flash photography

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Looking for better flash photography equipment?

Have a look at my other lens on Flash Photography Equipment

Featured Strobe Photography Video

Recommended viewing

I'll change these over as I find new videos worth watching.
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A sample of my other lenses

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Add your links here

Add your flash/strobe photography links here (family and work friendly only please).

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How to take interesting photos using common, everyday objects

I like taking photographs using everyday objects, more...1 point

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Flash photography equipment

Here you'll find links to flash kit, whether studi more...1 point

Joe McNally's Blog

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Take interesting photos using everyday objects

Another lens at Common Objects

Chase Jarvis

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Flash or Stabilisation?

Flashguns are great as is Image Stabilisation in lenses or in camera. Both allow you to shoot darker subjects, but which is best?

I know my view but I'm curious to hear yours.

I'll check the blurbs every day or so, so no worries if your blurb doesn't appear straightaway.

Which is more useful Flash or Image Stabilisation?

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Image Stabilisation

Flashgun

davidleetong says:

Not really the same thing comparing the two....

Posted November 20, 2011

audiocloth says:

the flashgun is better as you can affect the light. With the image stabilisation, all you get is a sharper image of the source. If the source is badly lit, then it will just be a sharper, badly lit image. Whereas flash allows you to get sharp and create an image.

Posted December 22, 2008

 

Feed from Confessions of a Photographer

Photography site from Bert Stephani
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A selection of my other lenses

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Studio Lighting News

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Vote for the best flash photography products

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Nikon SB-800 AF Speedlight Flash for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Nikon SB-800 AF Speedlight Flash for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

A sophisticated flash unit / Special functions wit more...1 point

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Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

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Nikon SB-900 AF Speedlight Flash for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Nikon SB-900 AF Speedlight Flash for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Powerful and versatile SB-900 works as a stand-alo more...1 point

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Nikon SJ-1 Color Filter Set, Eight Filter Light Balancing Set for the SB-800, SB-600 & SB-80DX Flashes

Nikon SJ-1 Color Filter Set, Eight Filter Light Balancing Set for the SB-800, SB-600 & SB-80DX Flashes

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Sto-Fen OM600 Omni-Bounce Diffuser

Sto-Fen OM600 Omni-Bounce Diffuser

The Omni-Bounce creates a Diffused Bare Bulb Effec more...0 points

Flash Photography Articles

Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 17-23
... dark with a camera and a flash strobe, treats the museum like a darkened crypt. Lutz Bacher's video offers another museum tour, while the museum appears in poetically distorted form in photographs by John Pilson, Tim Davis and Lothar Baumgarten.
On the set with Spike
We had to have eight strobe flash units with two heads each, bouncing the light off a white wall behind the trans. Danny and Spike were in the street and we casted a group of extras to look like a rowdy mob with them. It was actually done in an LA ...
'Spies in the House of Art' at the Metropolitan Museum
Nashashibi/Skaer, as the British artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer are known, produced a lovely 16-millimeter film in 2006, ?Flash in the Metropolitan,? by gliding through the darkened Met with a camera on a track, and using a flash strobe to ...
Duke’s Diary - January 21, 2012
The following article contains elements of flash photography and items which may cause offence. Obviously I'm not being entirely truthful here (which may cause offence) ? there's not really that much flash photography. Actually there's none.
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