Hey, sorry we're late!
Last weeks have been kind of crazy here, including a trip from France to the USA for an unexpected visit to NYC to attend the PDN PhotoPlus Expo!
... which was awesome, by the way!
During this time, photos were sent on Sylights from photographers who wanted to bring back those DIY Ring Flash babies home.
Well, two of them did!
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Today, we are launching our very first photography contest on Sylights!
This launch comes with the release of a new feature allowing you to accurately find what you want in the lighting diagrams gallery, but we'll detail this soon in another post :)
The contest will be running for two weeks, from today (Tuesday 11th October) up to Tuesday 25th. At the end of those two weeks, thanks to DIY Photography and their DIY Lighting Kits, we are going to choose two winners who will each receive a DIY Ring Flash and its bracket.
This DIY Ring Flash is compatible with most speedlights and will provide you with a beautiful light for your next portraits. That's not just me saying, check out what David Hobby thought about it too!
So if you want to win one of the two kits, go ahead and post your best shots on Sylights! There is no limits to the number of photos/diagrams you can post, but you'll have to take care of a thing or two:
Also, you obviously need an account to post your photos, as we won't be able to identify owners of "guest diagrams". Check that you're logged in before posting!
We will announce the winners during the first week of November here on the blog and we'll contact them personnally to get the information we need to send the price over.
So that's it! We're now waiting for your lighting diagrams and photos!
Best of luck to all of you,
Sylights Team
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It's finally here!
Sylights for iPad has been officially released yesterday, and is available on the AppStore for free!
Download it right now if you own an iPad and were using a scaled Sylights for iPhone (or patiently waiting ^^).
If you want to learn more, see the feature list after the jump.
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Dear photographers,
we hope you're enjoying our new version of Sylights.com. If you haven't seen it yet, it's time!
Wonderful photos and their diagrams are posted every day by talented photographers who are waiting for more interaction with you! :)
There are three announcements inside this post, three exciting news that you'll discover after the jump!
Contributed by Olivier Lance
"Lighting diagrams made easy".
This is what you can now read on the home page of Sylights. Just above a thumbnails list of recent and popular lighting diagrams.
Yes, we've put an update online. Yes, you have to check it out!
This is not just about the home page: we've packed a lot of new features and improvement in this one.
Learn more after the jump!
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So, that's it. 2010 is gone!
Yeah we know it's no big news and we're actually a few days late. But still, we'd like to wish you a very joyful year 2011!
And we would also like to thank you for following us during those months since June 2010, when Sylights was officially born! This year has been great for us, thanks to your support, your feedback and of course your enthusiasm!
Although we try to stay active and keep in touch as much as possible, we know we've been quite silent recently, in terms of speech and updates. We are sorry for this. However, as an "apology" and to show you we haven't stopped working, we have prepared some surprises that will come, one by one, during this promising year 2011!
The first one has been announced yesterday on diyphotography.net: a ring flash creator!
On an idea from DIY Photography, we've teamed up to develop this PDF generator. With a tiny measuring effort, you can have it draw a ring flash blueprint for you, which will perfectly fit your gear! Print it, cut everything out, assemble (instructions here), and you have it :)
The original drawings are from Diego Billi, who really made an excellent job and generously made them public!
We hope you'll like this project and use it to craft your own ring flash!
And if you do, don't forget to show us the result and share some diagrams :)
Happy New Year again, and stay tuned for the upcoming news.
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Yesterday, a new website has come to the world of photography resources: post-traitement.com. It is a French site whose headline would translate to "Post-traitement.com - The place to learn photography post-processing". English-speaking people, don't turn away now, you might find something useful there too, or perhaps help with translation :)
Created by French student and photographer Nicolas Constant (Flickr, Twitter), post-traitement.com features many tutorials written by Nicolas around photography post-processing with the objective to teach from the basics to the more advanced topics in photography processing, using Photoshop (and other tools later on).
You'll find after the jump a small interview we had with Nicolas to introduce his website:
Contributed by Olivier Lance
[update] The update is now available on iTunes. Check the App Store :)
Dear iPhone users,
our next update to Sylights for iPhone is currently being reviewed by Apple!
This one catches up with some of the last updates to sylights.com. Here is the change log posted on iTunes:
For the last ones of you still experiencing crashes on iOS 3.2 and earlier, this update should make it work fine. If you still have problems with this version, let us know here! See Pierre-Jean's comment here for instructions to send us an iPhone crash report.
You'll notice there is one tiny new feature, that was missing to a lot of you out there: a selection outline, showing more clearly which item is selected, and its bounds.
The update has been in review for a few hours now, so you should expect it quite soon. Another update should follow quickly, and also a small surprise... so stay tuned! :)
Contributed by Olivier Lance
As we told you in our last post, some new objects were being designed... they are now here!
We've added two subjects and five gears:
You can check out these new items on the editor or have a quick look on the "diagram" below!
Contributed by Olivier Lance
Yet another update to Sylights.com!
We have received a lot of requests and suggestions since the launch of Sylights. We are trying our best to include them in our own roadmap, and major updates should come soon with many of them!
Today, we are pushing some new features and new diagram objects. It's not a huge update, but it should help taking things to another level. I'll let you judge after the jump :)
Contributed by Olivier Lance
Sylights is a photography-oriented community, aimed at people who recognize themselves in those few words:
strobist, studio photography, off-camera lighting, and so on.
Our goal is to provide powerful tools to the community of photographers to ease transmission of knowledge and communication in this area.
