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Category: David Hobby | Strobist
Cross lighting
by: Matt
posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009 in Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock  David Hobby | Strobist

I'm very surprised by the amount of photographers I meet who are shocked to learn that we use flash in full sunlight.  I know this topic has been discussed before here and other sites. Strobist remains the absolute #1 resource for those who want to polish up on your flash skills.  Follow this link to read one of his lighting…

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USA Today features flash crazy…
by: Matt
posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock  David Ziser  David Hobby | Strobist  Joe McNally

Yep, the secret is out.  Flash adds an element to the photographers toolbox that enables lots of creative freedom.  Photographers are pooling their knowledge and offering hand-outs on tips, techniques and often or not, movies on what or how they do what they do.  

Thanks to a FF reader, today I was directed to a writeup in the USA Today about the emerging…

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"tricking" your sync speed
by: Matt
posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 in David Hobby | Strobist  David Ziser  Photographers

I was doing some browsing around and hit up my buddy David Ziser's site and found a tutorial he recently put together on "tricking" the sync speed of your camera. I'm liking this idea and can't wait to try it... ALL this time I've been afraid of going above the native sync speed of the camera in fear of the big black stripe on the bottom of the frame.

 

David…

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RadioPopper
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in Photographers  Kevin King  David Hobby | Strobist  Matt Adcock
I've been spending my time these last few days hanging out at WPPI in Vegas and finally got to meet up with Kevin King, creator of Radiopopper. Kevin is a pretty rockin photographer and an awesome entrepreneur as well! Kevin let me play around a bit with this killer device and he even told me that I may be able to get my hands on a set pretty soon so I can experiment with them…

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Flash Flavor before and after…
by: Matt
posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 in Photographers  David Hobby | Strobist  Matt Adcock
I know everybody is totally annoyed with me that I only update this blog once every 7-8...ok, maybe 9 days or so. SORRY. I'm busy shooting and traveling, really, I promise! Anyway, I need that time to muster up content that is actually worth something, so this week, I want to post something that I think will help a few of my readers grow closer to actually nailing the shot they initially envisioned! Sound easy enough? Well, with some practice and some studying, its totally doable! In this post,…

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