Flashgun Tag

The word ‘photography’ has Greek origins and means ‘a light paintbrush’ or ‘painting with light’. This meaning is sometimes overlooked, as we tend to think we are capturing a moment or an emotion in time. But in the end, it all boils down to harnessing rays of the visible spectrum to create an image.

Rather than merely using a flash to complement light from the sun, you can use a flash to beat the sunlight, making the flash the dominant light in the scene. To do this, you need a camera with a fairly fast flash sync speed. Thankfully, most digital SLRs can sync at a speed of 1/250sec, and some…

You may have seen that lots of Digital SLRs now offer ‘Live View’ and hoped that it would mean they work like compacts underwater. As of now there are very few Digital SLRs which actually do. Because many advantages of an SLR rely on that direct view of the scene, they cannot easy emulate a compact.

The Honl flashgun accessory system is reviewed by Damien Lovegrove, one of our expert reviewers. Find out his rating of this kit, aimed at creating professional lighting effects!

The new PocketWizard FlexTT5 & MiniTT1 wireless TTL triggers have landed in Canon E-TTL II flavour (Nikon i-TTL due soon) and we wanted to share the fantastic welcome they’ve received from photographers. Don’t miss out on the wireless TTL revolution!

When investing several hundred pounds on a flashgun for your Canon camera it is worth ensuring it has the features you are going to need at the same time as ensuring that you are not paying extra for features you’ll never use.

There is only one word in the off-camera flash world: Strobist. It’s an awesome website by David Hobby, dedicated to teaching you how to light effectively with small flashes.