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Strobist
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Strobist is a personal blog at strobist.blogspot.com about design. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Hey, while you are reshooting the pictures, have a look at David Hobby's material over at Strobist [0], especially the lighting 101 series [1]. Hope you find them as helpful as I did! [0] https://strobist.blogspot.com/ [1] https://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html
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on “I no longer build software”Submitted A Baker's Dozen: 13 Key Ideas (about flash photography) (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is some really great guidance here and some lovely images. However, some caveats: Almost all of the pictures used as examples are landscapes where people are not present or are mere compositional comments. In street or portrait photography, technical composition rules may be subordinate to the photographer's narrative. A better title for the article might be 'definitive guide for landscape photographers'. All…
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on “Photography Composition”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFun fact: the author of this piece, Ben Hobby, is the son of David Hobby, the photographer who maintains Strobing, one of the best blogs on off camera lighting: https://strobist.blogspot.com/?m=1
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on “Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"image capture device equipped with an eighty-five millimeter lens, the at least one image capture device further configured with an ISO setting of about three hundred twenty and an f-stop value of about 5.6" crazy. But very specific in some ways. 85mm lens is a great lens for this stuff and portraits. I see sales of the 90mm tilt shit increasing.. The diagram shows a person as a product. There is a lot of prior art…
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on “Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've noticed a few sites seem to have dedicated sponsors, which are in line with what they talk about. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com seems you use "OWC" other world computing as its primary sponsor http://strobist.blogspot.com/ (a flash lighting site) seems to have ads from a few flash companies and the 'midwest photo exchange' and a few flash copies. I'm not sure how those relationships were built. In college the news…
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on “Brands need to fire adtech”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor those interested in very hands-on advise on using artificial light, the Strobist [1] blog is amazing. David Hobby is a working photojournalist and does fantastic work on-site. It's one thing to control light in the studio, but quite another to bring your flashes to a random site and improvise. Hobby used to have a DVD set for sale which was probably the best money I've ever spent on photography stuff, but unfort…
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on “Exposing Digital Photography (2015)”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck http://strobist.blogspot.com/ for some examples of why you want to (properly) use a flash in many, many situations.
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on “Don't Be Ugly By Accident”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionanother hacker friendly (off-camera) flash photography resource is strobist at http://strobist.blogspot.com/
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on “Peter Norvig on dance photography”Submitted Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wanted to second "Light Science and Magic," and also put in a plug for Strobist, which is where I originally heard about this book: http://strobist.blogspot.com
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on “Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects”Submitted Strobist: Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> most people who care about photography don't use flash much for direct illumination I used to be adamantly against flash too. Then I read some of The Strobist blog. Now I am only against bad use of flash, the type built into P&S cameras. * http://strobist.blogspot.com/ Warning, it is very well written and way too informative. I don't even own a DSLR, but I really want to get my own remote speedlight just for the o…
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on “New Camera Sensor Eliminates Need for Flash”Submitted Strobist: Why I Moved Comments to Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm a relatively decent amateur photographer[1]. Currently I shoot with a Canon 5D Mk II and an Olympus E-P2 M4/3s, and I have a Fuji X100S backordered from B&H[2]. I have about $3500 invested in Canon glass (acquired over the course of six years), and another couple grand in lighting equipment (Pocket Wizards, Speedlites, stands, backdrops, etc.), again acquired over the course of six years. It makes me incredibly…
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on “Don’t buy an SLR if you’ll only use the kit lens”Submitted Analog Photoshop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionComputational photography can do a lot, but it's a long way from replacing a practiced understanding of light, color, and composition. And that's before getting into what you can do if you bring your own light. See: The Strobist. https://strobist.blogspot.com/ The art is in what the artist does before and after pressing the shutter button. The sensor is a canvas. Nothing on board any phone or camera in 2023 can repl…
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