adventures in softboxing: sunshine and daisies
Featuring:
- off-camera flash lighting with a softbox
- experiments with white balance and gelling
- daisies through a wide angle lens
- hints and tips and where I went wrong
hitting the street with the lumiquest softbox III
I got a LumiQuest Softbox III last week and wanted to put it to use straight away. Its main appeal to me is as a close in soft lighting source for portraits, useable handheld if necessary with no real awkwardness. I could use it at events to get awesome off-camera lit portraits anywhere, worlds away [...]
making ‘this glass is half full’
Today I posted a new image from a local pub that at the time I took it was a really nice photo as it stood. Really nice soft natural light, nice depth of field and sharpness with the 50mm f/1.8 lens, simple subject matter, popping colours, and beer. Perfect. :) I did give it a [...]
