GamiLight BOX 21 flash diffuser review

GamiLight BOX 21 (best flash diffuser rating: 8.60) is a new portable softbox from Gami Light Concepts, a Malaysian manufacturer of hot shoe flash accessories. With its size of 8.5"x6" (21.5cm x 15.5 cm), BOX 21 is suited for on- and off-camera flash photography applications. It is built after its big brother, SQUARE 43, using the same high quality materials. Both diffusers share the same design principles including detachable front screen, silver lining, snap system, and being able to fold flat.
BOX 21 folds flat, and it is easy to fit in your gear bag. It actually has few snap buttons inside to ensure that it stays flat when folded.

Zeh Bounce pop-up flash reflector review

Zeh Bounce from Zeh Photographic is a reflector for the built-in (pop-up) flash of your SLR camera. Pop-up flashes usually produce unpleasant results because they are small in size and positioned very closely to the lens axis. Zeh Bounce redirects the light from your pop-up flash towards the ceiling, which creates more natural results since the light source is located above the subject.

Yongnuo YN-565 EX Flash Review

Finally the new Yongnuo YN-565 EX has arrived in the Speedlights.net office! Buying a flash is a quick thing thanks to the internet. What’s very time consuming is the testing, reviewing, and the writing process itself.

Which is why I’ll do it differently this time – this review gets published now, and will be updated and completed over time so that you don’t have to wait forever before the whole text comes together.

Here’s the full review program – available parts as of now are linked from the table of contents:

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Photo Tip: Left of Center

Creative Spark: Left of Center

As a photographer, it is tempting to see the world through your viewfinder as you would when simply looking at a scene in normal life - i.e. from eye level with the subject up smack dab in the center of the frame. While this mimics how we normally look at things, and achieves the admirable goal of giving the subject prominence, I want to share with you a way to create more dynamic and engaging photographs.

Our natural inclination is to place a subject in the middle of the frame. I call this 'bulllseye' composition and it can result in rather uninteresting images.

Photo Tip: Five for Five

How many times have you taken what you were sure was the perfect shot, only to be disappointed when reviewing your work later on the computer? There's the trashcan you didn't notice in the corner; the stranger's elbow jutting out behind your subject. And why did that tourist have to step into the frame? These image-wrecking situations are easily avoided - if you notice them before you press the shutter button.

It's easy to be so preoccupied with capturing an interesting subject set in a stunning locale that you ignore small but distracting details like the out of focus pole jutting out from the bottom of the frame.

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM Lens Review

Canon currently has four 50mm lenses in production, the EF 50/1.8 II, the EF 50/1.4 USM, the EF 50/2.5 Macro and the EF 50/1.2LUSM. There are also two others which are no longer current: the EF 50/1.0L and the original EF 50/1.8.

The Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM, (compare prices), is the current premium 50mm lens. It’s larger, faster, heavier and much more expensive than any of the other production lenses.

The lens uses a ring USM with full time manual focusing, incorporates an 8 blade circular aperture for smooth background blur and is supplied with a lens hood and carrying pouch. There is a distance scale and there are DOFmarkings.

As you would expect from an “L” series lens, it’s sturdily constructed and has an optical design of 8 elements in 6 groups, with a large rear aspherical element made of high refractive index glass to minimize aberrations.

G. Banyak