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Photo Of The Day #8

An image like this is great to do. We just grabbed a light stand, an shoot through umbrella and a speedlite and went out in the early evening.

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Studio Example With The 50mm 1.8

In today’s video we do a brief example of the Canon 50mm 1.8. On the Nikon side you have the 35mm 1.8 in this same price range.

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Photo Of The Day #7

The photo of today has been taken by Pedro Hamers during a automotive show in his Nikon D3100 days. The title is very obvious Red Corvette Dashboard.

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A Big Thank You To All Of You

A couple of days ago I received a very adorable e-mail from Donna who had an issue with Manga Studio. You probably think that it’s very common for me to receive this questions and yes, it is.

But what made this so adorable and nice is the fact that Donna is a 67 year old grandmother who has fun using Manga Studio. I just like the imagination of it. It just proofs that there are no limits when it comes to diving into creativity using digital technology.

I’m glad I could help Donna by sending her in the right direction and wish her many busy hours being creative with Manga Studio.

Photo Of The Day #6

Hogwarts was the first thing that came up in my mind when this trio was passing by with the carnivals parade. I had to take a candid of them but had to wait for the right moment.

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Flash In The Sunshine With Mario And Pedro

Today Pedro and I decided to make a little demonstration video by shooting with flash on a bright and sunny day.

For this purpose we climbed up a hill (yes, I call it mountain in the video) what exhausted us a little bit. Hey, we are no sports men. You can easily recognize this at a glance at us.

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Photo Of The Day #5

Today we have a look at a cosplay captured by Pedro Hamers during Phantasium 2012.

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Triggering The Nissin Di622 With The Pixel Pawn

According to the vendors information there was no way to trigger the Nissin Di622 remote in any other way than with another flash or the pop-up flash of your camera.

I even saw videos where people would physically modify their Di622 to make radiographic triggering possible.

Last week my mate Pedro put a trigger set out of his pocket and the next thing I can remember is spending approximately $100,- to order a set myself.

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