Category Archives: Plus II

No Ambient Light? No Problem

As we all know, weddings (usually) don’t take place in brightly lit football stadiums. Receptions, especially, tend to take place at night and whether they’re indoors or out, the ambient lighting conditions are going to be challenging for the photographer. Adam Szarmack is a Jacksonville wedding photographer who’s come up with a number of ways [...]

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Jim Golden’s PocketWizard I Spy

If there were a king of Things Organized Neatly, Portland-based photographer Jim Golden would almost certainly be it. There are at least two PocketWizard radios amongst all that camera gear. Can you find them? His meticulously-designed still life compositions can often take up to ten hours just to set up. We asked him about this [...]

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Brett Harkness Driving Miss Daisy at Night

Photographer Brett Harkness recently shared with us images and diagrams from the book Light & Shoot / 50 Fashion Photos by Chris Gatcum. Here are his thoughts and details behind putting together the images from this shoot. This image was shot for a clothing company called Love Miss Daisy, which focuses on 1950’s vintage clothing. [...]

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Chris Arace’s We Are Vacancy

We love discovering photographers creating great images with interesting use of off-camera flash. Chris Arace is a Detroit photographer who not only uses PocketWizard radio triggers to light his portaits, but his series ”We Are Vacancy” includes images of talent actually handholding speedlights. In his own words, here are his thoughts on his work. An artistic rebellion of [...]

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Scott Kelby’s Remote Camera Round-Up

The photography instructor behind KelbyTraining.com and host of KelbyTV.com, Scott Kelby is back with an end-of season review of his foray into NFL photography. Here at PocketWizard, it’s been a thing of beauty to watch his journey from remote camera newbie to seasoned pro, all during the course of one football season. To catch the [...]

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VIDEO: KelbyTV on Setting Up a Remote Camera Trigger

Scott Kelby is offering a new show on KelbyTV dubbed Photography Tips & Tricks and it’s off to a fantastic, and mighty informative, start. This first episode “features Scott Kelby, RC Concepcion, and special guest Bill Fortney sharing tips on using Auto ISO, bracketing, and setting up a remote camera in places to which you [...]

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Mixing Light with Lin and Jirsa

Wedding photographer duo Lin & Jirsa have a new post up on SLR Lounge, showing you how they got a dramatic shot of a couple in a wine room. The post shows you the shot both before and after they added lighting, so you can really see just how much it added to the atmosphere [...]

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How to Set Up a Holiday Photo Booth

The Borrowlenses.com blog has published a story on how to set up a photo booth at your next holiday party. They detail how it can be done on a budget and won’t take up too much valuable partying real estate. Borrowlenses.com suggests using a three light set-up with speedlights — one to act as the [...]

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Ed McGowan’s Viridian

A designer by trade, Ed McGowan picked up his studio’s DSLR in 2008 and has been hooked ever since. His delicately composed shots lie right at the intersection between design and photography. Below, his account of Viridian. The idea for this portrait came the day before when some co-workers and I were exploring a little [...]

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Wireless Because It’s Easier, Not Required

Scott Wyden Kivowitz is a New Jersey photographer sharing his passion for photography any way he can. Scott regularly hosts photowalks in New Jersey and loves educating other photographers on all aspects of the art. Scott is also the Community & Blog Wrangler at Photocrati and the Photographers SEO Community, teaching other photographers on how to increase [...]

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