Studio in a Bag …. Part 2

By Scott Lewis on February 27, 2014

Quenox Light Shaper Kit for External Flash

There are a lot of things that are going to have to fit into my lighting bag, one of the first things I want to try out is Quenox Light Shaper Kit for External Flash. The kit itself is designed to fit any systems flash and comes with a variety of light modifiers. This is just my first impressions as I took them out of the box to play with, I have a few shoots planed in the next few months to really test them out.

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The many colours of Faye

By Scott Lewis on February 20, 2014

A while back I saw some cool photos using colour gels as a foreground, I wanted to use this idea and push it a bit further. But first I had to work out how exactly to light it for the affect I was looking for.

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Studio in a Bag …. Part 1

By Scott Lewis on February 3, 2014

I have a lot of mobile lighting gear…. I can’t help it, it like a compulsion. Playing with light either in the studio or out and about strobist style (the term strobist is actually a registered trademark and if you don’t know the strobist website you really should check it out) is something I really enjoy, but it can be hard and expensive to find the exact lighting equipment there is so much of it out there now days. So as I’m heading down to my sisters wedding latter this year in New Zealand I want to put together 1 bag of lighting equipment to take with me. So I want to test a few items and really find a balance between price, quality, portability, compatibility etc

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Light Blaster Part 3 … Nina

By Scott Lewis on December 13, 2013

The end of the year draws near and I have so much I want get finished (including 6 or 7 blog entries). Nina was in the studio a few weeks ago for a “Light Blaster” shoot as I had a few more ideas to test out.

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freelensing …

By Scott Lewis on November 10, 2013

Free-lensing is a technique where you use your camera with the lens removed! This method of shooting you use your lens detached from the camera but still held very closely, by holding your lens up to the camera (instead of attaching it) allows you to create a tilt-shift effect in your photos. With a bit of practice, you can even learn how to selectively focus on one thing, while everything else becomes blurred!

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Studio 101 with Sarah

By Scott Lewis on October 16, 2013

Last Friday was “Friday night shoot” time again. This time it was a starter course for first time studio users starting from the ground up covering all the basics including trigger, sync speed and different light formers.

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Light Blaster Part 2 … Tips and tricks.

By Scott Lewis on October 4, 2013

Here are a few things I have noticed about using the Light Blaster over the last week of playing around with it. If you have any other recommendation/ideas please let me know.

Light Blaster Creative Kit (printed transparencies)- Effects

Light Blaster turns your system flash into a portable slide projector allowing you to project slide images onto or behind your subject. In consideration of the vast amount of existing slides, the potential of Light Blaster is infinite.

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Tanja (Light Blaster part 1 intro and basics)

By Scott Lewis on October 2, 2013

The Light blaster is a portable adapter that allows you project 35mm slides using your system flash. A few years ago I remember seeing something similar and thought it was a fun idea (more about that latter). Recently I saw it in the catalogue from Enjoy Your Camera and had to try it out.

This was my first real shoot with the light blaster, I have tested it a bit over the last week but wait to blog any thing until I had really put it through good test.

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Björn….

By Scott Lewis on August 1, 2013

The week I wanted to shoot outside with the Roundflash again. But due a few different events we shot 1/2 the shoot out neat the Rhine river and 1/2 in the studio. This week Carola joined me again as second photographer, originally we had a shoot based around the designer John Galliano but that fell through and Björns S jumped in at the last minute to model and save the day…..

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Tips and Tricks for using Sony Alpha SLT cameras

By Scott Lewis on February 20, 2013

Tips and Tricks for using Sony Alpha SLT cameras

Most of the instruction describe the A77 but aren’t necessarily just for the A77.

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Studio in a Bag …. Part 2

Quenox Light Shaper Kit for External Flash

The many colours of Faye

Studio in a Bag …. Part 1

Light Blaster Part 3 … Nina

freelensing …

Studio 101 with Sarah

Light Blaster Part 2 … Tips and tricks.

Tanja (Light Blaster part 1 intro and basics)

Björn….

Tips and Tricks for using Sony Alpha SLT cameras

Tips and Tricks for using Sony Alpha SLT cameras

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