Well, after getting off my lazy ass I finally made a couple of “proper” snoots for my flashes. Until now I was using a couple made out of 6 inches of packing tube but since I had to fill a round hole (the tube) with a square peg (the flash head), the whole thing wasn’t [...]

I don’t think this is an original concept. I’m sure somebody else has done it but personally I haven’t come across it so far. Basically what I did is I took two “poor strobist” accessories and combined them. These two items were both discussed separately on the Strobist blog.
I needed a way to hold up [...]

Update: for some obscure reason I omitted to detail the shooting technique in my initial post. Here it is now, after the original article.
I won’t claim that I have become the master of coin lighting but here’s my take on this subject. Applying some of the Strobist techniques that I’ve been assimilating for such a [...]

Take a look at these 2 pictures. Yes, I know, they are poor shots, directly lit by the flash (oh noes!) and don’t even seem to have a purpose. They look like multi-exposures but they are not. They might have been done by strobe-painting, where you would keep the shutter open for a few seconds [...]

A couple of readers pointed out some time ago as a reference to my Using an eBay wireless trigger with a Sigma 500DG Super flash article, that using the C0 SL setting for firing the flash is ok, AS LONG AS no one else is firing flashes nearby, since the C0 SL setting is for [...]