Blog: Featured contribution by strobey
Strobey has contributed some very precise portraits into Pool. His licensing choices are quite precise as well. Some works are submitted under Creative Commons licensing for sharing and others, like this image of John, have ‘All Rights Reserved’. The artist's statement raises interesting questions about photographing people and sharing images.
It was a privilege to take these photos of John. As a sign of respect to him, please don't duplicate this image - it's here as a demo not as a pic to re-version.
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26.08.08 — strobey
I was asked to add some info on how I use strobes to light my pics. Two rules;
1. Get the flash OFF the camera - unless you like the possum in headlights look.
2. Turn off the automatic flash and camera exposure settings and muck around in manual, that's where the good pics are.
An off-camera flash needs a method to be triggered. This can be a sync cable, or a wireless device such as a Pocket Wizard (expensive, radio frequency based, ultra reliable. There are cheaper products called "Cactus" and :Poverty Wizard" but the web is full of people saying they're great - when they work), or maybe an Infra Red commander such as Nikons CLS (ultra clever, but limitations on range, angles and so on compared to Radio trigger)
You have two variables, shutter speed and aperture. In some cases you can overpower daylight even with a small strobe flash.
Lots more info in Lighting 101 at www.strobist.com