Decatur Strobist

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About Decatur Strobist

Welcome to the brightest group of photogs in Alabama!

To avoid having your photos deleted from the pool, please read the rules below - your pictures could be removed without warning during busy periods - so please read carefully BEFORE posting.

Don't know how to use your flash(es) off-camera? That's okay. Just head on over to Strobist.com and start reading. You have nothing to lose but a good night's sleep. (It's free.)

There is a full lighting course, hundreds of articles (uh, we're kinda into this stuff) and even a section of dozens of photos from real-world assignments with exact instructions on how they were lit with one or two small flashes.

Wanna share your photos with us? We'd love to see them. But please, limit yourself to one photo per day to give us time to enjoy each of your photos.

And just as important, please take a moment to comment on a photo in the pool. This thing is about feedback and discussion more than it is about "Hey, look what I did."

Also, please do not pull and resubmit your photos to the pool just to bump their position. We saw it the first time. Go out and shoot something different for us. :)

You get what you give - and this group has a lot to offer.



Please read carefully. If your photos do not meet the first four of the following rules they are subject to removal.

Please...


1. We are specifically about off-camera flash, so photos posted to the group pool should reflect that. Sadly, people miss this rule all of the time, opening the door for these kinds of threads. Don't be that guy. ... (FWIW, on-camera flash is fine if it is used to trigger other off-camera flashes.)

2. Images posted to the pool must include the following lighting details, in the caption of the photo (or in the first comment): the number of flashes used, where the flashes are placed in relation to the subject or camera, how the flashes were modified (umbrella, soft box, beauty dish, snoot, etc.) and how they were triggered. If you do not want to have the lighting info in your caption, please place it in the first comment. We want to make it easy for people to find.

Pictures using on-camera flash is not allowed unless it is being used in conjunction with off-camera flashes.

Images using only continuous light sources are not allowed with the exception of images using the "light-painting" technique.

The idea of this Pool is to share pictures taken with off-camera flash, and the details of how (the more detail the better.) Hey, we wanna learn from you...

3. This should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: Please do not use the threads as a classifieds section. Selling your stuff on Flickr is against the site's TOS, and it endangers the status of our group. Thanks.


Optional, but highly encouraged (and great karma:)

4. Post a picture? Leave a comment. Just doing this one, simple, quick thing will improve the quality of cross education immensely. Note a technique, offer an idea - anything, really. Just be nice. We're all about civility here.

Thanks much.