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It’s Reptile Awareness Day!
Apparently, today is Reptile Awareness Day! So, I’m making you all aware that I photography reptiles, as well as birds of prey, pooches, or any other animal you might want to have photographed.
Assisting in the clouds
That’s “clouds”, as in, “those pretty white balls of fluffy stuff in the sky that are actually just big masses of static rain when you’re standing inside them”.
At some point around the middle of 2013, fellow photographer and good friend Graham Binns got in touch, as he does from time to time, to ask if I’d be interested and able to assist on a shoot.
I’ve assisted Graham before, a couple of times, and he’s assisted me in the past, too. Whenever Graham and I get together, no matter who’s shooting, I know it’s going to be a fantastic day, we’re both going to come home exhausted, probably in a great deal of pain, and at least one of us will get wet.
So, of course, I said yes.
What is “Sync Speed”?
Most people who use flash understand that your sync speed is the maximum shutter speed with which you can use flash. What people generally don’t know is why.
“My camera goes all the way up to 1/8000th of a second, so why can’t I use flash past 1/250th?”
Well, this is really all down to how your shutter works in a DSLR. The types of shutters in DSLRs are called “focal-plane shutters”.