Remote-controlled studio flash line
"Photographers, whether enjoying themselves in nature or on city streets, at some point enter places where the sun is only a pale reflection of its power or a long-forgotten past.
This is not the beginning of a fantasy story, but an introductory preface to what we would talk about today. Instead of letting the sun control our ideas of how to light the subject we are shooting, let's take care to be masters of our own lighting. And since I have a secret prototype of a time machine, I will somehow manage to spare the tiresome journey through the history of artificial lighting, used by man to paint with light when there is no sun. With just one push of the free-time lever, we find ourselves in the present day, where the majority of photographers use an old weapon of the Olympic gods for their own purposes – the flash.
When natural light is insufficient, we have to use artificial light sources. Photography literally means "light drawing," which implies that the images we want to obtain come from objects illuminated with light. When shooting outdoors in nature or even indoors, through windows where natural sunlight (or even moonlight) enters, we do not always have control over how the objects are lit. We can truly create, without regard to when and how the sun will shine on us, by using our own light sources. Of the available light sources, I prefer to use flashes, be they system flashes, monoblocs, or generators with impulse heads..."
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Author: Ivan Maslarov
