A few weeks ago, my good buddies got married. As a wedding gift, I decided to bring along my camera along with a bag full of triggers, allowing people to take their own photos. I decided that the dancefloor would … READ MORE

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One common question we get is how to make our triggers work together. The short answer is that all 2.4G models work with each other. The only ones that don’t are the older, first generation models of Trigmaster and Trigmaster Plus (2010). Anything thereafter is gold.

Tutorial: To Strobe or Not?

In the world of product photography, you’re probably working with multiple strobes and complex lighting arrangements.

This is good and all, but sometimes you don’t really need flash lighting. To illustrate, let’s take a look at a recently completed project of mine.

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Free Photo Editing Workshop – LIVE

Tristan Jud over at RAW has just launched POP+

It’s a training program aimed at beginners who want to get the most out of their post-processing. And he’s giving away TWO FREE LESSONS.

What do you have to do to qualify? Simply leave a comment with the word “POP” on any of our social media pages: this blog, facebook, flickr, twitter, or youtube. Most creative commenting wins. Deadline is July 1st.

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A set of pictures in our Flickr group recently caught our attention, Using three flashes, some Trigmaster Plus units, and a bit of imagination, photographer Sean Wyatt did an excellent job, and we think the results are worth sharing. … READ MORE

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Introduction to Film Photography

If you’ve been shooting exclusively digital yet are curious about film, now is as great time. Old film cameras are cheap and readily available on eBay and used markets everywhere. There’s a special look to film photos, and it’ll challenge you to be a better photographer…

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Aperture Tutorial #2 – Importing

Another powerful feature of Aperture are it’s import capabilities.There’s more to just plug in your card/camera and download directly. You can set up the importer to perform a number of tasks for you, so that you don’t have to do them later. Here are a few of the things that I do…

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Tutorial – Tips on Shooting the Moon

First let me preface this by saying that these are not the best moon photos ever, but…what you may take from this is how to coax a decent moon picture out of some basic DSLR equipment.

Last night happened to be a “Supermoon” – the closest and brightest the full moon will be all year. I didn’t know this at the time, but when I saw it, naturally I ran for my camera to get some shots.

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Aperture is a powerful tool, but sometimes it can seem a bit daunting. Here, I’m going to show you how to make the most of Apertures many tools to organize a single project, using a recent photoshoot as an example.

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Need to take pictures of something you want to sell on eBay?

In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to take product photos…with a compact camera.

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