Have you tried tilt-shift photography? I haven’t, but it sure has got me curious. What it is: Basically, a tilt-shift lens helps produce a very shallow depth of field; the resulting images often look like you’ve photographed miniatures (somewhat like transforming, say, a regular scenic into a diorama).
What’s a snoot?
It’s a cylindrical flash accessory that attaches to your hot shoe flash and concentrates the light. I frequently see it used with portraits, but as with many photographic tools, its use is really only limited by your creativity. (Make sure to test and bracket to get the right exposure!)
Let’s start off the Fotodirt 2.0 era with a bookmark I’ve been carrying for quite some time now, but just never got around to posting: an interesting “project” on MAKE magazine that fully details how to build and put together your very own in-house strobe photography studio set up.
Why? As MAKE puts it: “Take pictures of popping balloons, breaking glass, and water droplets.” High-speed frozen action images, in case that wasn’t clear. And obviously you’re not limited to freezing popping balloons, breaking glass and dropping water.
