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    Excellent Write-up on using Canon Flash units

    Sunday, February 7th, 2010

    Though more technical and specific to a broad range of Canon EOS cameras and flash units, much can be applied to flash photography in general. It might take you an hour or two to go through this very in-depth write-up, but it’s well worth it if you want to have better results with flash photography. [...]

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    Using a Light Tent (or Lightbox), Part 1

    Sunday, January 24th, 2010

    I acquired an ImageMaker Light Tent recently, and have had some fun trying it out. A light tent is quite useful if you are trying to photograph things around the house, and you want to isolate them and better control the lighting of them.  This is Part 1 of several articles on photographing using a [...]

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    Super Macro

    Friday, January 8th, 2010

    I’ve been playing around recently with macro, trying to push further and further into the realm of the invisible, without making expensive investments in equipment. I will be detailing how to do this in a series of articles, but for a teaser, here is a shot I took last evening of something simple lying around [...]

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    Using a Ringflash, Part 1

    Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

    I know this blog has been dormant for a while- my workload has been quite high for me to be able to write well-focused articles. So, perhaps, I should break them down into smaller pieces, that I can post more often. So, here is Part 1 on using a Ring Flash. I bought a Ring [...]

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