Two of our review editors at FLAAR will be at Photokina 2018: Erick Flores and Dr Nicholas Hellmuth. We hope to see you there. We photograph all around the world, but our favorite are Neotropical plants of the Mayan world (Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador).
Since we photograph such a diverse range of plants, animals, landscapes, historical architecture, it helps to attend Photokina. We attended Photokina 2016 and will attend Photokina 2018.
About every three days, Ipomoea alba plants have been blooming in our FLAAR Mayan Ethnobotanical Research Garden (surrounding our office in Guatemala City).
Here in this photo you will notice that we have multiple cameras aimed at three different flowers which open between 6:40 and 7 pm last night. Nicholas is using two Nikons (D810 and D5); Erick is using a Canon EOS 1DX Mark II. All lighting is by F. J. Westcott (Spiderlite TD5, still hard at work after over a decade); all tripods are Gitzo via Manfrotto (functional after many many many years). If you want to see the setting (in the FLAAR Mayan Ethnobotanical Research Garden, 1500 meters above sea level, Guatemala) click here
But what we need are better ring lights, plus lighting which is more “directional” (like old-fashioned Dedolights, but lights which don’t require all the accessories). So one item we will be looking for at Photokina 2018 are lights for macro photography. SAVAGE is moving in this direction so we will be sure to be in their booth at Photokina 2018.
We will also be looking for ring lights (because Nikon curiously does not offer ring lights). Canon has really excellent ring lights; Nikon has separate individual units that are great for some situations, but are not as good as ring lights in some situations.
If you are planning to attend Photokina 2018 this September 26 to 29, you can have as a free download our Photokina 2016 report with recomendations, comments and brands who were present. Also with photo studio equipment exhibited and digital camara reviews.
Posted Aug. 9, 2018
