Had a very cool week in Venice. A VSP workshop with Joe McNally. Great bunch of people too from all over the world, the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria… It was all about strobes, the SB900 flash from Nikon. Canon shooters not welcome here. Made “the switch” 3 months ago, never looked back. Coming from a 580EXII Canon strobe felt like moving from a PC to the Mac. Most of you would know what I mean by that. Great to have buttons at all the right places.  Never knew how much you can actually do with flash, it’s like havin’ day light in your pocket. You need to learn a lot though as “photons go everywhere”.

I love the unpredictable and I love light, so 1+1=3 for me. No time for a workshop ? Read Joe’s book or pay a visit to strobist. People ask me a lot about what camera do I use, what lenses, what settings… the tech stuff. My feeling is good gear gets you the last 20% or so but the first 80 is predominantly eye and light. Now if you can mould light to your benefit that certainly helps.

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