Lighting

White Balance -- Are You RGB Savvy by Moose Peterson

by Moose Peterson, exclusive to nikondigital.org
Updated by David Cardinal, September, 2010
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Fun with Flashlights

The great weather in Death Valley last week brought out lots of tourists and made getting into dinner a tough proposition. So with an hour to spend before we'd be seated there wasn't enough time to go back and look at images, so my daughter Annie and I decided to have some fun with our flashlights and the old Twenty-mule team Borax wagon out in front of the Furnace Creek Ranch. If you've never done it before there is almost no limit to the fun you can have with a flashlight or two (or your flash units) and just about any subject you can light up...

Twenty mule team Borax Wagon lit by Flashlight

The Coolest Headlamp Ever? The Petzl Zipka 2 Plus

Image of Petzl E98 PM Zipka Plus 2 Headlamp, Mystic Gray
Whether it is pre-dawn, after sunset or a nighttime project every photographer eventually finds themselves having to work with their gear in the dark. Many of us have become headlamp junkies as a result. There is no substitute for a small and convenient light source that aims where you look. But the choice of headlamp has been a tradeoff between power, long battery life, size and functionality--until now. Petzl has just released what may be the coolest headlamp ever. Read on for my full review of the Petzl Zipka 2 Plus headlamp...

SpyderCube: A Perfect Photo Gadget for Everyone

Datacolor SpyderCUBEWhen David Tobie first showed me what looked like a Christmas tree ornament at the Press Sneak Peak event at PMA I thought perhaps it was a trendy European household decoration befitting the new European management at Colorvision/Datacolor. But once I realized it was carefully colored in white, gray and black it dawned on me that the SpyderCube was actually a pretty cool photo tool.

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