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New Year’s Materialistic Wishes

December 30th, 2009
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Hardware, Photography

I do have New Year’s Resolutions but instead of listing all the things I want to get better at, I’m listing gadgets I would want to buy. Some are more realistic than others. The most realistic ones are on top.

Wireless Flash Triggers

At the moment I have an off-camera cord (approx. 1.3 meters) to get my Nikon SB-28 away from the camera and a flashgun with wireless slave feature (Nikon SB-80dx) but for more creative lighting I will need to get wireless flash triggers. Something like PocketWizard (R) with two receivers would be ideal but I’ll have to go with…

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Food Photography

December 27th, 2009
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Photography

For someone like me who is usually taking dark and melancholy pictures, food photography is challenging. Food will look good if it is photographed correctly but it is very easy to screw up the photo. We have all seen those gloomy photos of not-so-pretty meals. Food photos need to be bright, glowing and colorful. While preparing some Christmas treats, I took a few photos for practice.

Because there is not much natural light in December, I lightened the compositions with on-camera Nikon Speedlight SB-28. Flash was bounced from the ceiling. I had to do only minor adjustments in post-processing.

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