From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Life In The Fast Lane

by Dennis September 30, 2009

As planned, I got together with the Strobist St. Louis group on Sunday and spent the afternoon learning some new things about lighting and taking photographs of cars. I also got to play with some CyberSync flash triggers, which worked really well with the Alien Bee studio flash units provided by Ariana, who put together [...]

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External Validation

by Dennis September 25, 2009

I finally heard back from the folks at www.istockphoto.com and it appears that my submissions were in fact up to stock snuff.  So now I will be combing thru the archives over here looking for the one half of one percent of shots that may be suitable for stock images and submitting those a few at a [...]

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I Want an iPhone

by Dennis September 22, 2009

The fact is, I’m a late adopter (or is it adaptor?). One of the few things I have ever bought when it first hit the market was my Nikon D300 and that’s because I have a lot more confidence in Nikon cameras than any other consumer products. I figured the camera would be right out [...]

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What Moves Me

by Dennis September 17, 2009

I finished my photo for the Strobist Bootcamp project on transportation yesterday, so I would like to thank David Hobby again for providing some nice end of summer inspiration for a fun photo shoot. Everyone’s submissions are over at www.flickr.com in the strobist group pool and tagged with – sbc2assign4. www.strobist.blogspot.com What moves me is [...]

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No Salt

by Dennis September 12, 2009

It’s Saturday night and all is quiet… Too quiet and that’s what is irritating me for some reason. Nothing much is happening and that means not much progress is being made. The world has taken something out of me this week but rather than complain, I’ll try recapping my activities instead. I ordered another flash on Friday and [...]

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Balancing Act

by Dennis September 8, 2009

This one is all about balancing ambient light with fill flash which just happens to be one of my favorite things to do. In this shot I am using a minimal amount of gear, a single off camera SB600 flash triggered by Nikon CLS, better known as the Creative Lighting System. It’s automatic and fine [...]

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