Professional lighting

I have found a very interesting site on getting better results with flash. The Strobist site is actually a blog (using the same service as we do) and you can read it here. One of the readers of Strobist is X-Pose, and you can read his tutorial on building a diffuser panel here and view samples of his work here. He describes how he achieved each of his pictures, which makes it especially interesting.

Important note: Looking at other people's pictures is one of the best ways to improve your visual literacy and, thus, your photography. You're highly unlikely to become a good writer if you don't read, and the same applies to photography and looking at pictures. Why is, do you think, that experienced photographers still buy photo magazines and books?

X-Pose mentions the Canon ST-E2 infrared transmitter, which is what we Canon users have to buy in order to be able to move our dedicated camera-top flashes off-camera, but still allow the camera to control the output of the flash. Users of Nikon cameras are luckier because most of their camera bodies have wireless flash control built-in.

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