Welcome to the Strobist Index 1 Jan 2010 2:01 PM (15 years ago)
One of the problems with an information-based site that is housed within a blog is that much of the information gets buried in the stack and is hard to find.
Strobist has, at last count, well over 1,000 articles and posts -- and I have made an attempt to index the most useful of them here. (After the last few days' work, the next term I will personally be Googling will probably be "carpal tunnel syndrome".)
I have never been a fan of tags and other various forms of blog indexing, and I hope a more curated version of an index will be of use to people looking for specific information.
Even though the design is very similar (for continuity) you have actually left the main Strobist blog and are in a completely different website. A little deceptive, maybe, but the best solution I found for integrating a standalone index into a last-in/first-out blog format as is Blogger.
This is very much still in the beta stage, and it is an organic work-in-progress. So please forgive the rough edges as I work on things such as alphabetizing the subcategories, etc. Also, I have not yet gotten to some of the threaded sections, such as L101 and L102, so they are still best accessed by the drop-down menus in the sidebar.
To jump to the any portion of the index, just click on the appropriate letter group at the top of this page. You can also reach the index via the link at the bottom of any post on Strobist.
As always, thanks for reading.
David Hobby,
January 1st, 2010
A-C | D-F | G-K | L-O | P-S | T-Z
TV screen, balancing with
Taylor, Keith: Fireman shoot
Team Strobist
Tejada, David X.
On Assignment with, Light bag video tour, Computer portrait, Corporate headshots video, Conference room lighting, Pimping your Chimping, Dave's DIY Beauty dish
Telephoto Flash Lens: Better Beamer
Test, test, test
Texture, lighting for: Ex. 1, Ex. 2
Theatre, shooting for
3 Speedlights into 1 soft box
Trade Secret: Strobist Lighting Cards
Traveling light: Basic, everyday bag
Trigger, Open Source: Discussion link
Tripod: As powerful light source
Tungsten: Gelling for
Turpin, Nick: Speedlights al fresco, More street work, Ad shoot for Heathrow Airport
Two-Light Shoots:
Second for tension, Women's lacrosse, Men's lacrosse, Vodka, Spring Desserts, 35-person group shot, Keith Taylor's fireman shoot, Michael in Paris, Contortionist in a locker, Two-lights, all hand-held, On-axis fill + soft key, Ray Flash + LQ SB-III portrait, Hard Flash run-and-gun, Desert falconer, Climber's Hands
Two-light: Variations on a theme: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3
UUU
Umbrellas:
Original L101 post, Re-thinking Shoot-thru's, Swivel adapters, Westcott Double-Fold Convertible, Graphite insert mod, LP 632 Umbrella "shorty" swivel, What flash zoom setting?, How to choose
Underwater: Awesome DIY flash housing
Universal Translator synchs everything
VVV
Vermeer: Beers with
Vivitar 285HV:
Vari-power mod, Full review, Standard synch jack mod, Extensive, multi-mod example, T-nut mount mod, Another synch mod
WWW
Wall bounce, Example
Watch photography: By Ming Thing, QA from Ming
Water Photography: One-flash technique
Webcam pix, lighting for better
Wedding photography: Flash Flavor blog (recommended)
Welcome Page (Strobist's very first post.)
What the Duck: No Macy's for us…
WIMAX: Shoot for USA Today
Wind tunnel, OA
Winters, Dan: Light is not your problem, Book preview, Great audio interview, Assigned to photograph
Winzeler, Kevin: Two cool shoot BTS vids -- sports
Wrestler portrait, OA, Awesome WTJ behind the scenes
XXX
Um, we don't have anything for "X" yet.
YYY
Yang, Peter: Shooting Adm. William Fallon
ZZZ
Zebrafish and Zygotes, shooting
Zuckerman, Andrew: Lighting planesPPP
PC jack: Adding to any camera
Palette, color: consider yours
Paparazzi special: Synching 6 on-camera speedlights for one photo
Paper lanterns: DIY Light diffusors
Photo Caves: John Harrington, David X. Tejada
Photoshop: Dove: Time-lapse beauty, … and an ugly response
Platon: Three excellent vids, BTW from Putin Shoot, Interview, Russia Today
PocketWizard:
Intro, Relay mode video, How to connect to any flash, vs Nikon CLS, Being a smartass with, Guts of, splayed open, Parabolic antenna mod, PocketWizard Caddy, PW'ing a remote camera, Extreme Range of, Pt. 2, TT1/TT5 reviewed, TT1/TT5 updated, Solves Canon noise issue
Point and Shoot: Hack a no-shoe synch-jack
Pool portraits, one-light
Posing Tables: Don't buy THIS one.
Post-production: High-pass
Pre-assignment prep
Press conference: Hijacking for your studio
Prihoda, Martin: Delerium Band Shoot, Monkey Suit Shoot
Problem-solving, in lighting and otherwise
Profile: Konstantin Sutyagin
Profoto: Annie Pro-8 BTS shoot, Still photo music video, Purchase considerations
Propaganda, Dept. of: Awesome flash projector gun
QQQ
Q and A's:
On white balance, even group lighting, full-power only, CTO density, Picking up bounce color, Metering, chimping, histograms, On managing speculars in portraiture, What color to paint studio?
Quarterback: Shoot for Rivals.com
RRR
RadioPopper:
JrX's, intro'd, JrX's, reviewed, JrX's, Q&A, DIY RPCube
Rants/Essays/Ideas:
Be the flash, It's not just about the light, Know the flash, Light, or more glass?, See the flash, Keep a lighting file, Lighting file v2.0, Rational approach to buying gear, When are you gonna learn?, Strive for Layers of Interest, Photography's Vanishing Middle Class, Channeling your Mentors, Your Lighting Journey, Hit for Average, Separating yourself from your photos, Working for free: 4 reasons, Value of self-generated work, 20 Questions to Ask, How music is like light, Death to the PC jack
Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter:
Full review, QnA, + LumiQuest SB-III portrait, vs. pro ring light, Vs. Orbis
Real Estate: One-light R/E photography, Blog your house to sell it, Shoot your house to sell it
Redux Blog: Recommended
Reflections: Controlling with Double Diffusion, Secret Chinese method for controlling
Reflectors: One light, many sources: Reflectors for table-top shoot, Fill goats
Rembrandt: Beers with
Restricting Light: Snoots and Gobos
Reverse-engineering light
Ring Flash: Resource page, Cool portrait technique [See also AlienBees, Ray Flash and Orbis]
Rock Climbing, Shooting 1, Shooting 2
Rodriguez, Robert: Filmmaking on the cheap
SSS
Scissors-Clip ceiling clamp
Schoeller, Martin: BTS video
Seale, Robert: 1-hr+ Lighting seminar video
Shade, use of for lit portrait
Shoe-mount flash -- the good kind
Shoot The Bloggers Project: John E. McIntyre
Shorthand thinking: Balancing light
Slaves: How to use SB-800's built-in slave
Snipes, Dustin: 70-lit portraits in two days
Snoots
Snooted portraits:
Ex 1, Ex 2, Nick Turpin's street shoots
Soft box: DIY 'Cheater' speedlight mount
Social media: Shooting for
Solar Power: Strobist powered by
Spanish: Strobist en Espanol
Specular reflections: As background element, how-to
Speed straps: DIY
Speedlighting. Literally.
Stephani, Bert:
Video: One-light glamour, Video: Hard light and beer goggles, Leftovers, Woods fashion shoot, Mo' Bounce to da Ounce, Auditorium group shot, DVD announced
Sto-FEN: How to DIY
Street Photography: How-to video
Strobe-on-a-Rope
Sunset: Shooting at, Sunset shooting, Ex. 2, Falconer in
Studio: What color to paint?, Work w/low ceilings in, Open shade
Studio Lights: How to Choose
Super clamps
Synching Methods
Synch cord extension: Household cord DIY, Pt 1, Household cord DIY, pt 2, Adding a second hard-wired flash
Synch:
Safety - Don't fry your camera, Adding jack to Canon Flashes, Exceed your camera's listed speed, Mixing partial synch with ambient, Ultra High speed synch during midday, BW Hi-synch portrait, Universal Translator synchs everything, Source: 10m TTL sync cords, Know Your Real SpeedLLL
Lacrosse Portraits: Women's, Men's
Landscape Lighting Techniques: Disappearing flash, Mixing with ambient, Stick your flash somewhere unusual, One-light night landscapes
Large Interior, lit w/speedlights
Lawrence, Joey: Tutorial review
Legos: Strobist enshrined in
Leibovitz, Annie: Book: At Work (review), Profoto BTS video, Sean Connery shoot BTS video, Mad Men BTS video
Lenses: How they are made, How to quick-change a lens
Light painting: animated, also using timed diffusion, Beautiful, animated commercial, Awesome Hennessy campaign BTS vid
Light, Science and Magic -- review 2nd Ed.
Light Sphere: DIY version
Lighting 101 Intro page, w/video
Light stands: L101 intro, LP 604 5-section light stand, Big-ass version
Light Tent for shiny subjects
Lighting 101: Great, explanatory overview video
Lighting 101 PDF's: English, Translation project announced, + Japanese version here, in French, Hebrew and Spanish, in German and Polish, Romanian and Russian,
Lighting Diagrams: Online Creator, iPhone App
Lighting Essentials: Review of
Lighting: Thought process at a bar, A person in a locker, On two planes, 2 planes, Ex. #2
Link to Us! Code for, w/pix
LumiQuest: Possibly too much use of, Fold-flat bare bulb adapter, Soft Box III, FX-Tra, LumiQuest SB-III + ring fill, In use, SB-III Barn boor mod,
MMM
Macro: Lighting for, $10 Macro Studio, Using Macro Studio w/ two lights, One light, many sources: Reflectors for table-top shoot, On location, w/P&S
Mad Men: Behind-the-scenes shoot video
McNally, Joe:
Awesome lighting brochure, Owning you w/one SB-800, Moment it Clicks: Review, Shoots top of Empire State Bldg (video), Desert Shoot, Extended video -- Google Talk, Great Nikon CLS DVD, 'Outtakes' from CLS vid, Hot Shoe Diaries (review), iPhone hijinks
Mental gymnastics
Mercedes Gull-wing - amazing, 2-light shot
Monoblocs: Walk-thru, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Making speedlights act like
Multimedia journalism: MediaStorm
Miller, Steve, E.: Dead artists shoot
NNN
Night flash: Amazing firefly shot, Night snowboarding, Night ground-to-air chopper lighting, One-light night landscapes, James Rubio's Night Wedding Portrait, Night Shuttle launch flashed portrait, Night-time outdoor flash, use of/balance, Ex. 2,
Nikon CLS: Vs PocketWizard, Quickie tutorial, Awesome Nikon video, Online video resources
Nikon SB-24: Recommended, Modded for bare bulb,
Nikon SB-600: Synch jack hack
Nikon SB-26, recommended
Nikon SB-800: External resources, Built-in slave how to, As subject matter, Chicken neck mod, More Humane SB-800 rotate mod,
Nikon SB-900: Intro'd, Hands-on review, Big-ass foot on, How to access built-in superslave
OOO
Off-photographer camera
On Assignment Full Reference Page
On-Axis Fill: Intro'd, Ring and add'l soft key light, Ring and hard key,
One-Light Shoots:
Poolside, More sophisticated use of, tutorial, Lighting food, Detail object light, 3-D artwork, Hero Fan, Outdoor, crosslit w/sun, Night landscapes, tungsten at sunset, Real estate photography, Zack Arias' Killer Dubai Group Shot, Water drop photography
Open Source Trigger: Debut
Orbis Ring Flash Adapter: Intro'd, Unboxed, Ray Flash comparison, Vs. Ray Flash, head-to-headGGG
Gear, misc:
Light stands, Swivel adapters, Starving Student Light Kit, Rational approach to buying, How to buy cheaply on eBay, Awesome location laptop case, Inexpensive gear bag example, Brewer double flash bracket, Brewer Quad Flash mod, Packing for Central America trip, Speedlight Pro kit, My normal travel kit, ThinkTank Airport International bag
Gels:
L101 intro, Rosco STROBIST Collection announced, Tungsten in daylight ambient, use of, Cutting for your flash, CTO key shifting, Gel holder, source for wholesale gels, Proper spacing to avoid overheating
Glasses, lighting for
Glass objects, lighting for
GoBos: L101 Intro, Creative use of
Golf: Golf Digest BTS Vid
Guy on a Boat, OA
Grecco, Michael: Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: Review, Martin Scorsese shoot, SunBounce shoot video, Shoots Will Farrell and Penelope Cruz (videos)
Greenberg, Jill: Interview, shows some lighting,
Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy: Ovation TV Interview
Grid spots: DIY Cardboard plans, Made out of straws, Using to control contrast
Group shot: Large, two-speedlight, Whole auditorium, Edgy technique for, Zack Arias' killer one-flash group technique, Big Group in a dark room
Gulf Photo Plus (Dubai): Walk-thru, Shoot-out video
Guide Number, explained
Guiton, Jean-Baptiste: Hi-end cosmetics BTS shoot,
Gym, lighting w/small flashes
HHH
Halloween: Mean cheap fog machines
Hard Light:
Why use?, Fixing harsh sunlight, Hard, single-light indoor portrait, Hard single-light outdoor portrait #1, Archeologists, Hard single-light biz portrait, Lacrosse portrait, Ex 1., Lighting large areas with, Long-throw, 2-light bikini shoot, Hand-held run-and-gun
Head Shots: Maybe not all smiling?, One-light corner setup
Heisler, Gregory: Shoots Bruce Springsteen (video)
Henry, Alexx: Moving Movies Posters
Hill, David: Interview with, Extended BTS vids
Hodges, Zach: Awesome 'Twilight' parody Xmas card
Honl, David: Belly Dancer shoot, Lighting DVDs review
Honl Grids: Using to control contrast
Hot lights: Awesome motorcycle shoot video
How to: Quick-change a lens
Hunt, Pat: Frozen Humming Birds
III
Illustrative: Mixing lit photo with drawing
Insanity: Defined, Proof that I may be …, More evidence of, Confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt,
Impact damage in 3, 2, 1…
Interiors: Lighting from outside a room, Reader QA,
Instruction manuals, old Nikon flashes
Interviews: Tips from the Top Floor, StudioLighting.net, StudioLighting.net #2, on Benadryl
iPhone: As lighting file, As a light course,
JJJ
Jarvis, Chase:
3-min commercial shoot BTS, Kung Fu video, iPhone hijinks, Best Camera iPhone app
Japan: Insanely expensive lighting magazine, Books, from same publisher
Japanese: L101 in Japanese
KKK
Kayaker, shoot
Keatley, John: Lighting Strikes Twice, Inspired by natural light, Editorial shoot lighting walk-thru
Kite-mounted camera: video
Kid, shooting your, OA
Knight: How to lightDDD
DIY:
Bare-Bulb flash, Snoots/Gobos, Macro Strip Lights, Holga lens on a DSLR, $10 Macro Studio, Tinker Tubes, plans for, ring flash, Ring flash #2, $10 Soft Box Grid, Safe-synch adapter, Cardboard grid spots, Lighting diagram PSD files, Spaghetti box snoot, Vivitar 285 Vari-power mod, Hobo cardboard softbox, Lawnmower wheel remote camera-pod, Tungsten ring light, A-clamp light stand, 2-cent, printer paper macro studio, Scrounged white macro studio, $8, fold-flat ring light, Plunger-based background stand, Engineer lamp-based macro light stand, Grid spots from straws, Collapsible soft box, Graphite Umbrella shaft inserts, Speedlight standard synch jack mod, 'The Cheater' speedlight soft box mount, Potentially deadly home-brew flash, Produce-aisle sto-fen, The Invisible Background stand, Over/under ring light hack, Faux Ring light #1, Spray paint background paper, Home Depot canvas backgrounds, T-nut flash mount mod, Foil backed tape for reflectors, Paul Duncan's Faux Ring light, Coffee can ring flash, *DIY* Off-Camera TTL cord. Srsly.
Light stand box strip lights, David Tejada's beauty dish, Trash bag light mod, #1, Trash bag hack #2
Roll your own speed straps, Garage studio, MicroMini Equiv., Light bouncing on the cheap, Salad bowl beauty dish, Paper lantern diffusors, LumiQuest SB-III Barn door mod, RadioPopper RPCube, Lazy-leg light stand, Details, lighting of, Ultra-light, tent pole light stand
Dancer: Location shoot (OA)
Details: looking for and lighting
Developing an Idea: Pt. 1, Pt. 2
Diaz, Dustin: On 365's
DVDs: Strobist Lighting seminar
EEE
Ebay, how to buy cheaply on
Einstein monoblocs: First impressions
Elevating daily assignments
Elinchrom: Skyport review, Lights purchasing consideration
Engagement: Strobist reader goes all out
FFF
Father's Day: Jason Lee shoots his kids
Flashes: What yours needs to have
Flash bulbs, use of
Flash: Photo better with or without?
Flash, Quad-synch manual: LumoPro LP120
Fletcher, Jon M.: Night shuttle launch flashed portrait
Flickr: Scout your Explored pics
Flickr profiles: Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, How Flickr is changing, Sara Lando, John Dohrn
Fluorescent light: Gelling for
Food:
Macaroni, Vodka, Junk food porn, Desserts, Sjan: Food Photographer (parody), How-to: The Lunch Box (for shooting food)
Funnell, Greg: Colin Firth shoot BTS vidAAA
Airport CEO shoot
Alienbees: ABR-800 Ring Flash review, Purchasing considerations
Alligators All Around
Aluminum foil, use of
April Fool's: First attempt
Archeologists, OA
Arcurs, Yuri: Mr. Microstock
Astrophotography, Use of flashes in
Astronomer, OA
BBB
Baby: Portrait, OA
Babe, topless: (shoot)
Backdrops: Scrounging, Shooting through glasses, Use of roofing panels as
Backlighting: Indoor example, Theater shot, Macaroni
Backpack: Dyna-light in a
Balancing Light:
L101 Basics, Pt 1, L101 Basics, Pt 2, Ex: Outdoor, full-sun portrait, w/dark, indoor environment, with a TV screen, ambient light source as design element, StudioLighting.net video how to, Flash and moving ambient, Controlling Daylight at midday, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Faking tungsten at sunset, A shorthand way of thinking
Ball Bungees: Intro to, Use to mount a speedlight to a soft box
Bare Bulb: How to simulate
Barn Doors to fit speedlights
Basketball, lighting: Example 1, Ex. 2, Ex. 3, Q&A on
Batteries: External power sources, Ni-MH's, great for your flash, My favorite charger, Lumy External Battery video, NiZn Turbo AA's
Benson, Robert: CEO shoot BTS video
Best Business Practices for Photographers: Review
Bird Photography: Bradford Fuller's fly-in studio, Freezing Hummingbirds
Blind Snoot portrait OA
Blown shoot: Testing on
Books: Recommended reading list
Boom: Convert broomstick into, Inexpensive option for small flash
Boot Camp: Boot Camp 1 Archive Page
Bounce Flash: Using Walls and Ceilings
Bounceman: Light, in Tights
Broadway Photo: Do NOT shop there.
Buffalo Wild Wings: Strobist commercial
Bunting, Blair: Profile, with BTS light
CCC
CERN: Visiting, Pt. 1, Pt. 2
Cave Studio: Gus Sentementes shoot
California Sunbounce:
Michael Grecco video, Bert Stephani Video, DIY version of Micro Mini, CSB's DIY page
Canon:
Reaches Puberty, G9, Intro, G9, High-synching of, As Polaroid back?, Shooting macros on location with G9, G11, full review, 5D MkII's Overrated Sync Speed
Car photography: Using bounce boards for, Hard speedlight technique
CCD, cleaning
Central America: On assignment in
Cheat sheet, using
China: Strobist launches in
Christmas: How to Photograph Holiday Lights, Lighting Christmas Morning
Cicada, OA
Clamps: Ball bungees, intro, Super clamps, intro
Collins, Dean:
Best of DVD, Review, Live at Brooks Institute, On lighting interiors, Hot lights bike shoot, Airport CEO shoot
Conference room quickie, OA
Cooley, Kevin: Video Promo
Copy photography: Large-scale, 2D, Small-scale, 3D, Using DIY Macro Studio for
Cosmetics: BTS vid: hi-end shoot
Creative Light: Two cool BTS vids
Crewdson, Gregory: Ovation TV interview
Criticism, learning from
Crosslighting: Example: one-light vs sun, Example #2, Brent Williamson's portraiture