Ikan Awesome http://www.danielpeckham.com Random thoughts about cool stuff. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en The High Speed Sync Flash & Focal Plane Shutter Relationship http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/danielpeckham/~3/1wT_A-kbZE0/ http://www.danielpeckham.com/photography/the-high-speed-sync-flash-focal-plane-shutter-relationship/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:38:39 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielpeckham.com/photography/the-high-speed-sync-flash-focal-plane-shutter-relationship/ Canon 580 EX II high speed syncMy wife was excited when I told her I was writing a blog post about relationships. Then I read her the title, and she wasn’t so excited anymore. Hopefully some of you photo geeks will be.

I think I finally wrapped my mind around flash high speed sync speeds and how it relates to focal plane shutters used on modern digital SLR’s. I will try to explain.

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Dodge and Burn has been at the top of my Aperture feature wish list for some time. Thus it was with great delight that I saw this useful feature listed for the Aperture 2.1 update which was released on Friday. Almost any photo can use at least a bit of selective lightening and brightening, but until now the only way to do this was to use the Edit with External Editor feature in conjunction with Photoshop or some other image editor. This meant that most of the time I usually skipped this part of post-processing.

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