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Off Camera Flash Kit Round-Up

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Anonymous, 17 February 2009 10:48

Free your flash!Off-camera flash or Strobism has become hugely popular in portrait and action photography, largely thanks to blogs such as Strobist.com and photo sharing sites like Flickr.com Vivid colours, bold shadows and theatrical lighting are achieved through the use of multiple flashes or strobes placed carefully around a subject, allowing the photographer to take total control of the lighting. ...

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Off Camera Flash Kit Round-Up

rating is 3.5

Anonymous, 17 February 2009 10:48

Free your flash!Off-camera flash or Strobism has become hugely popular in portrait and action photography, largely thanks to blogs such as Strobist.com and photo sharing sites like Flickr.com Vivid colours, bold shadows and theatrical lighting are achieved through the use of multiple flashes or strobes placed carefully around a subject, allowing the photographer to take total control of the lighting. ...

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Hotshoe

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Anonymous, 07 October 2008 16:51

A Hotshoe is a connection on the top of most cameras to allow a flashgun to be mounted. The hotshoe provides a direct connection to trigger the flash when the shutter is released.

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Fill-in-flash

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Anonymous, 23 September 2008 12:26

Fill-in-flash is used to help fill in dark areas of an image, especially when the background is lighter than the subject. It is normally used in outdoor photography on bright days.

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Flash diffuser

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Anonymous, 23 September 2008 11:59

A flash diffuser is a piece of plastic or material that is placed over a flash to diffuse the light. This is useful for spreading the lighting rather than focusing it at one specific point, creating a more natural lighting effect.

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Barndoors

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Anonymous, 15 September 2008 17:27

Barndoors are a set of folding metal flaps that fit around the front of a spotlight. They are used to control light spill and can limit the amount of light on a subject. Barndoors can get extremely hot and they conduct the heat from the light source so always wear thick gloves before adjusting them to avoid severe burns.

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E-TTL

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Anonymous, 12 August 2008 17:48

E-TTL stands for Evaluative- Through The Lens and it’s associated with the Canon flash exposure system. It uses a pre-flash before the actual main flash is fired to achieve the perfect exposure. The E-TTL uses the same evaluative metering sensor that’s used for ambient metering unlike the TTL system, which has a flash metering sensor, located at the bottom of ...

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Slow-sync flash

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Anonymous, 23 October 2007 14:59

Slow-sync flash works by combining a slow shutter speed with a burst of flash. The long exposure coupled with a moving subject will give you a blurred image, while the flash will freeze the movement. The result of using the two techniques together gives a blurred effect but also makes sure the main subject remains quite defined. To make the ...

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Off-camera flash

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Anonymous, 23 October 2007 12:42

Any flashgun that can be fired when it’s not directly attached to the camera’s hotshoe is known as off-camera flash. This technique is usually used to give more flattering lighting than the very flat, straight-on light you get from a flash attached to the camera. There are several ways that this can be achieved, depending on your camera, flashgun and ...

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Guide number

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Anonymous, 23 October 2007 12:20

The guide number (GN) is probably the most useful and important specification to know about an electronic flash unit, as it quantifies the amount of light a particular flash can produce. The higher the GN, the more light the flash can emit but it is important to check how the GN is expressed, since the information will vary considerably depending ...

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Flashmeter

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Anonymous, 18 October 2007 15:54

You can’t use the meter built into your camera with studio flash, so you need a flashmeter to measure the exposure. This is a hand-held exposure meter calibrated to measure the light emitted from a flashgun. The most accurate way to use these handheld meters is a technique known as incident light metering. This measures the light falling on the ...

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