16 Nov 2011

Those lucky guys just won the contest!

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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Flavored Gins by Tilo Gockel

Julie by Romain Lechevalier

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Contributed by Sylights Team

16 Feb 2011

Sylights - Lighting diagrams made easy!

"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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20 Sep 2010

New update to Sylights.com

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 :)

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Contributed by Olivier Lance

3 Aug 2010

Show your photos, share your comments!

It's been some weeks since the last update on sylights.com!

What kept us busy for that time? First, our Sylights for iPhone application. The beta is currently running and we've had some really helpful comments and reports. Thanks to all the testers who are participating!
You should expect some news in a near future about this, so if you own an iPod Touch, an iPhone or an iPad, stay tuned!

A lot of work has also been done on sylights.com, and this is what we are going to address here. The short version is: Flickr photo import, comments, design improvements. The long version comes after the jump.

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19 Jul 2010

Sylights in your pocket!

Sylights has been launched a bit more than one month ago, with the intent to provide some powerful tools to strobists/studio photographers regarding lighting diagrams. After this first month, we'd like to thank everybody for showing support and interest in our project!
We've seen many articles and blog posts flourish all over the world and feedbacks on our feedback page, which really encourage us to continue working on Sylights to bring up all the features we've thought about!
 
So work is still going on on the website and we will have some news soon, but today's announcement is not about the website. Today's news is about bringing Sylights to your pocket. Or wherever you put your phone into, as a matter of fact!
We are indeed really glad to announce you our Sylights for iPhone application, which will be available to a panel of users as a beta version in the coming days! 

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Contributed by Olivier Lance

15 Jun 2010

Lighting diagrams: a powerful tool for studio photographers

In the different off-camera communities I know, a real effort is put in accompanying each photo with information about its lighting. On the Strobist Flickr Group for instance, it is mandatory to describe the setup that was used in the photo caption.

This is truly a nice commitment in order to help others learning about lighting and I am the first to enjoy this, but I don't find text descriptions appropriate for that kind of documentation. While this is probably the best and most direct way to comply to this rule on Flickr, I am surely not the only one to prefer something a bit more visual, as I have seen setup shots and lighting diagrams flourish along with those text descriptions. Not that much though...

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A lighting diagram is a great tool to document a photo and–more specifically–the lights and modifiers used to create it. I am surprised it is not more widely used by strobists and/or studio photographers... in fact, I've found through my readings of forums and blogs, that not everybody seems to understand the benefits of lighting diagrams and how to use them properly.
This post will give you my understanding of this tool and some tips on how to get and communicate useful information through a diagram. Of course, I don't mean to have absolute knowledge on the subject, but I do hope to bring some insights on lighting diagrams to those who are still wondering about their usefulness.

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Contributed by Olivier Lance

Sylights Team

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.

Contributors

Sylights Team Olivier Lance Pierre-Jean Quilleré