It’s no secret that on-camera flash is harsh and can be very unflattering, this is true of built-in camera flash as well as add-on speedlights. This is why so many educators preach about off camera flash and how to do it, in most cases, getting the light source off your camera is thought to be paramount to improving its look. But what if you can’t take the light off your camera for whatever reason or another, what can you do to soften your on-camera light?
Hey everyone, how about a special edition of Cheap Photo focusing on some tech deals that you should be looking at if you are looking to upgrade your post-processing power or data management? Tech Tuesday? Anyways, as you could guess, today’s highlight deals feature all sorts of tech upgrades for you to improve your processing power or data management capabilities. Oh, and we also added some new camera deals too, including $500 off the Nikon D800!
Expanding on our call for gear reviewers (which have been more or less filled and they will start soon) we’re looking to bring on new faces to the staff of the Phoblographer for the news and culture side. We’re offering very competitive pay, a couple of cool perks, a heck of an experience, and a chance to work with cool folks in the photo industry.
The winners of the Fine Art Photography Awards for 2016 were recently announced. In a collaorative effort, David Tortora and Jaime Travezan won overall Professional category with the title of Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2016 and a $3000 prize. Their winning series called ‘Flora (2015)’ is a celebration of nature.
We’ve all been waiting a pretty long time for them, but now the Phottix Odin II for Sony cameras is finally a reality. Like many other triggers that offer TTL transmission this radio will allow the user to do High Speed Sync, Second Curtain sync, control of the modeling light if you’re using the Indra series of lights, and control with 32 channels and 5 groups.
Photographers Deborah Ory and Ken Browar are a husband and wife duo husband and I are both photographers. Their subjects: dancers. Based here in NYC, Deborah and Ken has been shooting for the past few years from companies including American Ballet Theatre, Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey, New York City Ballet and others. Later this year, a book of theirs called “The Art of Movement” will be published for all to call their own personal coffee table book.
“Me as a photographer: all over the place.” says Sophia Hernandez. “I’m still finding myself, but I’m enjoying the interesting ride. I get really down if I go even two days without taking a photo, so I embrace photography as best I can by exploring as much as I can.”
The Galaxy company has been responsible for doing a load of really cool things: sheet film, direct positive sheets for 120 format, and today they’re launching a new Kickstarter for large format cameras. Ever hear of Wet Plates–as in Wet Plate Collodion or the stuff that so many photographers have used for forever? Well Galaxy has wondered why no one ever made Dry Plates, so they decided to do it themselves.
Welcome back to a new week of Cheap Photo! We had some killer deals last week, and this week we hope to continue that trend, starting today with some must see tripod deals for those of you looking to upgrade your stabilization situation. We have up to $245 off name brands line Benro and Manfrotto, so check it out after the jump.
Years ago when I was doing sweaty production shoots at tech rehearsals for London’s West End shows, I never thought I’d be asked to shoot a portfolio shot of Tony nominated Broadway stars in New York. So when BroadwayBlack asked to to be involved in their highlight of this year’s black nominees, I didn’t have to think long to say yes. It’s the culmination of so many of the different areas of photography I’ve become interested in over the years. To combine something that’s anthropologically important, culturally current and aesthetically pleasing. As a photographer, that ticks all the boxes.