Strobist Makes Lighting 101 Into FREE PDF

David over at the Strobist blog has turned his superb Lighting 101 series into a pdf for free download.

Grab it here

Fraser goes Flying

Fraser here at TFC went over to Airkix yesterday to show them some lighting and ended up having a go himself.
Incase you don't know, Airkix is an upward facing wind-tunnel that simulates skydiving.
Check out the pictures here.

He's not been in today.......

Sitting on the Tarmac.

After a lovely week in Belfast enjoying the city and watching my
oldest friend get married I'm now stuck on the Tarmac.
Apparently they've just moved the air traffic control centre at
heathrow and 'as expected, it no longer works' (those were the pilots
words!)
Why is it that companies like google can roll out infrastructure
changes perfectly even though they are not safety critical systems yet
something like air traffic control gets screwed up so royally?
Alex Ray

http://www.theflashcentre.com
http://alexanderray.blogspot.com

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First iPhone incident

Managed to drop it today!
Went and did the tourist thing at the giants causeway and whilst
scrambling over the columns I heard an ominous thwack. I looked down
to see my iPhone laying face down on a rock. With great trepidation I
picked it up and turned it over, fully expecting to find the screen
smashed or at least cracked. To my utter amazement it was fine! On
closer inspection I have found a small scratch on the back but nothing
major.
Even as a hardened Apple fan i'm amazed how resilient this thing is.
This evening I was showing the image browser to some friends kids. As
soon as they saw the pinch and stretch they totally got it, I've never
seen kids so totally enthused by a piece of technology so quickly.
That has to say something about the ui design.

Alex Ray

http://www.theflashcentre.com
http://alexanderray.blogspot.com

Sent from my iPhone

Belfast, cool city.

Not sure what I was expecting but so far I'm impressed. Of course it
is raining (heavily).

Alex Ray

http://www.theflashcentre.com
http://alexanderray.blogspot.com

Sent from my iPhone

Camera rig drives past the Brunswick

I saw this camera truck driving past the Brunswick this evening. They
were shooting video of a couple on a moped. The moped was on a very
low trailer, not sure I'd want to be riding over speed bumps on it!

Greenpeace likes something!

The environental protesters seem to like the idea of us all getting
the eurostar instead of flying.

Cool video shows some great optical illusions

It includes quite a few different types of illusion. You might want to
keep the pause button handy as some of them go by a little too quickly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOP37A1EhEs

New lightware lens tube

This one takes a 400mm but others are available. The solid construction and thick padding means they are quite happy in an aircraft hold. You can also use it as a handy seat!

posted from an iPhone

my  Phone

Booom!

I'm guessing that's the noise this head made when the inside of the capacitor shot out like a piston and destroyed the circuitry!




(2 days to iPhone)