Umbrellas are cheap, portable little light softeners. But there are enough choices available to make picking the right one a little confusing. Or worse yet, to end up with something that is completely a wrong fit. The first choice you' ...

There is so much talk on some forums about the ’softness’ of shoot-thru umbrellas and how much it works to provide a soft light. And there is certainly some truth to that statement… especially with umbrellas at a distance. But finessed lig ...

I got a 001B Manfrotto Light Stand - This is one of the lightest light stands around and it folds really small - perfect for travel. It is also tall enough to do well in most indoor situations. For outdoors, however this is not my initial cho ...

In this lesson, we will look at how the efficiency of a light reflector works. To illustrate this, we will employ the line up of umbrellas from Photoflex: the RUD, a white translucent umbrella, the RUT, a white translucent umbrella with a rem ...

Click here for speedlite flashes in softbox and umbrella set-ups with sample photos.

1) Setup your single light source (It can be a continuous source, a low power strobe or a 100 watt flash). 2) Make sure you use a very large light modifier for your source, such as this homemade light panel, a very large shoot through umbr ...

Photos taken with the mobile and wireless speedlite flashes set, bounced into silver umbrella. Click here for lighting set-ups with speedlites bounced into silver umbrella.

I'm using the speedlites with softbox combination more and more ... Here's the same set-up taking an other shot, the slave 580ex speedlite is trigerred by the 550ex master one: Other photo with the speedlite flashed through the softbox ...

The first thing you have to ask yourself before choosing the flash setting for your umbrella is, how big do you want your light source to be? But before we get to that, let's make sure we all know what we mean by "zoom setting." Re ...

Master 550ex Speedlite 580ex slave Flash bounced in silver umbrella Manual mode - 1/1 power ISO 200 - f/6.3 - 1/200 sec - 70 mm Master 550ex Speedlite 580ex slave Flash shot trough softbox Manual mode - 1 ...

Here are a few lighting diagrams from recent studio shots : Bare monobloc studio flash positioned behind model, camera left. Monobloc via shoot-through umbrella close to model , camera right. 2 bare monoblocs positioned behind subject. ...

Umbrella or softbox in the studio video.

Explore the world of off-camera lighting thanks to Strobist Links to Strobist articles out of the Lighting 101 ( © Strobist ) : Two Things Your Flash Needs to Have Traveling Light Light Stands Super Clamps Ball Bungees Umb ...

With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. Hugin panorama photo stitcher

I've been receiving more and more emails asking for information about the softbox I use with the speedlites. Several brands offer this package, I opted for the Chimera set as it was complete and had a larger box than the other brand at the tim ...