Monthly Archives: November 2008

The difference between Clipperz and PassPack

Clipperz and PassPack are two web services that store your passwords for you, and provide one (or two) click login to those sites whose passwords it keeps. In doing so, these services hopefully encourage you to select strong passwords that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to remember and thus improve your overall security. [...]

Strobist meets Niekerk

Continuing in the photography/lighting vein… Neil van Niekerk’s techniques are geared towards the time-limited on-the-go (wedding) shooter; David Hobby tends to prefer carefully constructed off-camera light. He’s been exploring on-axis fill recently and his “run and gun” post is where I’d like to go next with lighting: using a single off-camera light with on-camera [...]

Flash photography with Neil van Niekerk

Shooting with natural light can produce a beautiful portrait, but in many real life shooting conditions photographer-added light can improve the quality of the result. In his flash photography workshops, such as the one I took last week in Boston, Neil van Niekerk explains the technical knowledge you need to produce the artistic look [...]