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In Other News: Free service for pros, new Adorama contest, how to use on-camera flash & more

 
 

This week, Adorama launched a new contest with a $3,000 prize package up for grabs, a pair of photographers published videos about making better selections in Photoshop, Mark Wallace shares on-camera flash tips for portrait photography and more. This week's featured photographer is French photographer Louis Dazy, whose...

The father of the flash: Tracing the modern flash back to its scientific beginnings

 
 

A few years ago, BBC Future wrote a feature about Harold Eugene Edgerton, a longtime electrical engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pioneer of flash photography. A post on Reddit about Edgerton recently appeared, so it feels like a great time to take a look back at his work and the lasting...

The bullet-stopper: Ultra-fast Vela One strobe makes high-speed photography safe and affordable


 
 

Want to try your hand at really high-speed photography, but put off by the costs and dangers of an air-gap flash? (One such model, Maurice Ribble's Airgap, will run you US$2,000 and jumps 16,000 volts across two electrodes to create its brief light source.) Now, there's a much more affordable, LED-based...

Digital Rev TV uses $13,000 flash pack to freeze-frame water

 
 

The crew at Digital Rev TV is back with another chapter in the chronicles of a gear-nerd with unlimited access to the world’s most expensive photo equipment.

Speed Shooter is a series at DRTV in which Kai and company use an absurdly expensive flash system to freeze-frame fast-moving objects in a burst sequence. In this...

Flash-photography guru Joe McNally shares lighting tips in Nikon video series

 
 

We’re in an era where cameras can almost see in the dark, and as a result, the art of adding light to a scene is under-appreciated. But when the student is ready to turn down that ISO dial, the teacher will appear.

Nikon just posted the second in a series of lighting tutorials with brand ambassador and...