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Tom Bol

Tom Bol is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Colorado. His career started with a degree in journalism and background as an outdoor guide. After school he led multiple Himalayan climbing expeditions, kayaked two months straight in Patagonia and guided wilderness expeditions around the world, always with camera in hand.

He specializes in adventure sports, portraits and travel. His editorial assignments have ranged from photographing mountaineering rangers on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley to sea kayaking in Honduras. He is a contributing photographer at Canoe and Kayak magazine and a regular contributor for Digital Photo and Outdoor Photographer magazine. He is also an online instructor at Kelby Media. His commercial work varies from shooting national ads for camera companies to creating images for worldwide tourism campaigns. Tom was on the list of National Geographic Adventure’s “50 of America’s Top Visionaries” for his photography, and Nikon, Elinchrom, and Lowepro have featured his work. He speaks regularly at tradeshows for Nikon and Manfrotto, and is a frequent workshop teacher. His images and stories are published worldwide by a variety of clients.


Thursday, April 21, 2011

Elinchrom Ranger High Speed Sync w/ Pocket Wizard

Achieve sync speeds over 1/2000 using an Elinchrom Ranger and Pocket Wizard Hypersync

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High speed sync is critical for the action sports shooter.  If you want to freeze action and use flash, your options are limited.  One choice is you could use high speed sync using speedlights and shoot at 1/2000 or faster, but the power output and effective flash range is greatly reduced unless you use multiple speedlights.  Another option is using studio strobe packs/heads and underexposing the daylight so that the main light illuminating your subject is the flash.  As long as the flash duration is fast, your moving subject should be sharp.  But what if you don’t want to underexpose the daylight 2-3 stops?  Of what if you want to shoot at a wide open aperture like F2.8 on a sunny day and use strobe.  Your shutter speed would be much faster than the standard 1/250 most cameras allow as their fastest sync speed.  Now everything has changed.  Using Pocket Wizard Hypersync technology, shutter sync speeds of 1/2000 and faster are possible using studio flashes.

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Elinchrom Ranger High Speed Sync w/ Pocket Wizard

Tom Bol | 04/21- 01:30 PM

Achieve sync speeds over 1/2000 using an Elinchrom Ranger and Pocket Wizard Hypersync





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Elinchrom Ranger High Speed Sync w/ Pocket Wizard

Tom Bol | 04/21- 01:30 PM

Achieve sync speeds over 1/2000 using an Elinchrom Ranger and Pocket Wizard Hypersync

High speed sync is critical for the action sports shooter.  If you want to freeze action and use flash, your options are limited.  One choice is you could use high speed sync using speedlights and shoot at 1/2000 or faster, but the power output and effective flash range is greatly reduced unless you use multiple speedlights.  Another option is using studio strobe packs/heads and underexposing the daylight so that the main light illuminating your subject is the flash.  As long as the flash duration is fast, your moving subject should be sharp.  But what if you don’t want to underexpose the daylight 2-3 stops?  Of what if you want to shoot at a wide open aperture like F2.8 on a sunny day and use strobe.  Your shutter speed would be much faster than the standard 1/250 most cameras allow as their fastest sync speed.  Now everything has changed.  Using Pocket Wizard Hypersync technology, shutter sync speeds of 1/2000 and faster are possible using studio flashes.

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