Triggers & Remotes
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Sarah Edmunds has mastered the art of lighting her portraits. Edmunds unravels the secrets behind the perfect shot by exploring the nuances of using 1, 2, and 3 lights in portrait, fashion, and wedding photography. Whether you're in studio or outdoors, her techniques will help you better light your images.
0:00 - Introduction
1:23 - About Edmunds
4:56 - Gear
8:00 - Why is Lighting Important?
9:06 - Simple Guidelines
11:20 - Shaping Light (aka "Quality of Light")
18:54 - One-Light Indoor Portraits
27:55 - Two Lights
31:10 - Three Lights
35:36
Profoto’s Connect Pro is a modern update to wireless communication across Profoto’s expansive lighting ecosystem. The new transmitter offers greater control and improved overall performance while assuming the cool aesthetic and streamlined interface that has become synonymous with Profoto’s name.
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Canon has announced Version 2 of its Speedlite Transmitter ST-E3-RT, adding a handful of features to the wireless remote. The new version will now include wireless rear curtain synchronization for creative capture of moving subjects, an extended minimum output of 1/8192 for refining flash power, and FE memory for recalling settings for repeated use.
The new ST-E3-RT maintains the same physical design and operability as its
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Join photographer David Flores as he tests the Profoto Connect, a super-minimal remote trigger for Profoto lights. Stripped down to only three modes on the unit (Auto, Manual, Off), Flores relates his experience shooting in Auto, as well as Manual, using the Profoto App on his iPhone to make adjustments on the fly.
Product Highlights:
Built-In, Rechargeable LiPo Battery
30-Hour Battery Life
Operating Range: 330-1000'
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
The Connect is available for
If you haven’t started using radio triggers when you shoot weddings, you should do so right now. There have never been more high-quality radio systems on the market than right now, and many brands are equipping their lights with built-in receivers that make it so that you don’t even need to carry a bag of PocketWizards around. Considering that the equipment is affordable and effective, and it can eliminate the need for wires or unreliable optical systems, you need to get a move-on and upgrade your lighting kit.
A good example for a modern
Continually working to bring more and more camera systems into the Profoto family, the lighting company has just unveiled the Air Remote TTL-F for Fujifilm cameras. Made in collaboration with Fujifilm, this new remote brings AirTTL support to select cameras, including the GFX 50S, X-T2, X-Pro2, and X100F, as well as future models via firmware updates. With AirTTL, photographers can make full use of the myriad features found in Profoto’s
Keep your Profoto Air System and Nikon camera working in perfect sync with the new firmware, version B7. Easily downloaded from the Profoto website and installed via the Air Remote TTL-N’s USB connection, this update ensures full support for the D5 and D500 DSLRs. Also, it fixes an auto-power-off bug, along with some more minor issues.
As a working photographer, the center of the universe is your camera bag and its contents. Your cameras and lenses are the tools of your trade. As you may have noted, both are mentioned in plural because just as you wouldn’t jump out of an airplane without a backup parachute, you shouldn’t attempt to photograph an emotionally spiked, non-repeatable event armed with only one camera. The same applies to lenses, too. The many aspects that comprise shooting weddings—portraits, the ceremony, dimly lit environs, tight, crowded quarters and bright