LA RAMBLA DE BARCELONA

LA RAMBLA DE BARCELONA, a set on Flickr.

Digital Pixels

Surfing arround I have found the blog by the Spanish Photographer Pablo Vicente.
His web is full of very interesting creations. You can find a lot of information of how to shoot with small flashes "a la Strobist" here

http://www.digitalpixels.net/index.php/category/flash/

Strobist Gear: Tunning the Ebay triggers

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Originally uploaded by flashyfeliz

All the pictures of the first Lighting 102 assignment were made with the gear of the first picture. My trusty Canon Powershot G-5 bought in 2003, a Metz 45 CL-3 strobe (which is about twenty years old) and the in-famous e-Bay triggers: I have used them for almost a year now and I have found the same realibility problems many people have found. But Pocket Wizzards, despite the last offers, are still very expensive for me.
For me, the weakest point of the EBT is the CR-2 battery: it lasts only a hundred photos. After that, it starts to give random faulty flashes and some sincronization problems.
As CR-2 batteries are expensive (6€ per unit) I have "tunned" my EBTs using 3 Ni-MH AA elements (3,6 Volt). The experience has been completely satisfactory.
You can see my modification in the next picture: I have removed the screw that locks the trigger "shoe mount" as I use only the Sync Cord connection (I have found, also, that the hotshoe is not very reliable)

Barbara is posing for me :)

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Originally uploaded by flashyfeliz

My favorite model, Barbara (Barbie for her friends... lol ) has been in my studio, posing for me.
I needed her to start the Lighting102 exercises proposed by David Hobby (a.k.a. Strobist).
In my flickr photostream you can find what you can achive with only one flash, moving it arround your model.

Photography is nothing, it's life that interests me

There are words of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

This quote and hundreds more of dozens of photographers they are in the interesting site Photoquotes a place where the words inspire pictures. Really interesting.

A useful Flickr tool

If you are a Flickr user like me possibly you know the Interestingness section, the daily selection of the ‘best’ pictures chosen by Flickr. But is possible that you don’t know the Flickr Grab page. This is a very interesting tool with that you can see in only two pages all the 500 Interestingness pictures of every day; or all the last pictures of another Flickr member; or all the Favs of a Flickr friend… Is easy to use and very useful. I recommed to you that to prove it !.

Beniliam again...

Originally uploaded by ::· Beniliam ·::.

My friend Beniliam goes on with his small rangefinder cameras. Shooting TRI-X and developing his own copies.
Yes, I know that he is not using digital at this moment, he is in "classical photography"... But who minds?. I can assure you that he can do outstanding pictures with a digicam ;-)