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Santis - Mountaineering and Strobes
A normal hike in the Swiss hills generally means a minimum elevation gain of 1000m, and by the time you finish the tour, the elevation gain over summits and passes adds up pretty fast. So, in principle it’s ill advised to take more than a DSLR and a lens or two. My photo and lighting kit included a Fuji GA645wi, a Ricoh GR Digital, Sunpak 383 flash and Gadget Infinity radio trigger.
Lazy Sunday - Fun with Flower Photos
After too many days and weeks of rain and snow and late spring sleet the Sun shown bright and strong over Zurich on the second Sunday of April in the year 2008. I took the opportunity to sun bathe and then set up flashes, picked up my Minolta 7D and Ricoh GRD and set about [...]
Translating a Vision into a Photo Concept
I’m somehow drawn to photography to get the picture that I didn’t know existed. That concept in my head which sits there till I try and make it for real. And few things are harder for the eye-brain connection to interpret than motion. Adding motion to a static photography subject can add a certain something, and I took the concept in my head and set about translating it into a viewable form.
Engineering for the People - Radio Triggers
One of the great possibilities the current digital age is the revolution in photography and off-camera flash, an often over-looked aspect is the development of radio triggers to activate off-camera flashes. There are currently two known projects from non-corporate entities developing radio triggers for off-camera flashes, RadioPopper, and the open source Strobit Trigger project.
The RadioPopper [...]
