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Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)11 Jun 2024
The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto, Discounted for Strobist Readers Lighting solves technical problems. The harder problems are usually human.
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Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)11 Jun 2024
The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto, Discounted for Strobist Readers Lighting solves technical problems. The harder problems are usually human.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)30 Jun 2021
SLC-1L-13: Conservancy Critters When lighting with small subjects, a speedlight is generally all you’ll ever need.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)2 Jun 2021
iPhone Users: Put an AirTag in Your Camera Bag Apple’s new AirTags are a straight-up gift for photographers.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)28 Feb 2021
SLC-2L-15: Cross-Pollination Lighting with flash can give you more than just the ability to control the quality of your light.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)31 Dec 2020
SLC-OE-08: Turning the Corner Take a Moment to Revisit Your Previous Work Why don't you see that? Because your brakes are worsening a tiny bit each day, often too slowly for you to notice.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)25 Nov 2020
SLC-0L-05: Lighting's Gateway Drug Quick, guess the lighting. If you said two lights, and use of high-speed sync to get the shallow depth of field, that's a pretty good guess.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)27 Oct 2020
SLC-1L-12: A Garden of Ideas At first glance: a simple, one-light portrait of activist gardener Janssen Evelyn.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)22 Aug 2020
SLC-2L-13: Shoot Through Your Sunset Whenever you have control over the time of day in which you'll be shooting a location portrait, always remember that the hour that wraps around sunset will...
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)13 Jul 2020
SLC-1L-11: Planting Rice at Sunrise Seeing as no one is doing much traveling these days, I thought it'd be fun to pay a visit with a Strobist reader photographing somewhere far away.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)11 Jun 2020
SLC-2L-12: Two-Light Bike for the Bucks (Tiny speedlights FTW...) Have you tried to buy a new bike lately? Or even a used bike? The coronavirus pandemic has made them very tough to find.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)6 May 2020
SLC-2L-11: The "Magic" of Medium Format There's something about shooting medium format — especially in black and white.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)24 Mar 2020
SLC-1L-10: [COVID DIARIES] Shoot the Kids Hey, there's a pandemic. Have you heard? Looks like we might be spending a lot of time in the house with our immediate family these days.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)6 Feb 2020
Hot-Shoe Go-To: The Godox TT600 How best to put this? The Godox TT600 is, objectively, a screaming bargain.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)31 Jan 2020
The X-Peditions Workshops Site has Moved! Two pieces of news, on the X-Peditions Hanoi photo workshops front: The first is that I retired from teaching as of November 2025.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)23 Jan 2020
In Appreciation: The LumoPro LP180 [2013-2020] The LumoPro LP180 is no more. You could make a strong case that the LP180 was the best manual hot shoe flash ever produced — and maybe that ever will...
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)19 Dec 2019
SLC-0L-04: Red State, Blue State To learn to create evocative light with flash, it helps to better understand how we experience the continuous light we see every day.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)30 Nov 2019
SLC-0L-03: Joker Cinematographer On Light & Color Watching the movie Joker, I felt repeatedly that I was watching a film that Greg Heisler could have lit.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)31 Oct 2019
SLC-2L-10: Left Brain / Right Brain Just as most of us are either right- or left-handed, it is said that we all have a dominant side of our brain as well.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)2 Oct 2019
Lighting Workshop Interest List Strobist® Lighting Workshops Our classes are held as both single- an multi-day events. They have small class sizes and feature lots of time behind the camera.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)1 Oct 2019
Announcing (2) Small-Class Lighting Workshops Baltimore / Washington, DC Area, Dec. 6 and 7 UPDATE: Both workshops filled very quickly.