Speedlights & Speedlites, 2nd Edition

Introduction

It may be hubris, but what did the first artist look like? Art stirs primal urges so what circumstances turned an act of survival into an act of passion? Whereas most two-dimensional art began organically—splashing pigment on cave rock, drawing lines in the sand, penning ink on paper—its origins most certainly were simple.

More recent to the scene, photography has always been the “red-headed stepchild” because of its dependency on technology—state-of-the-art technology—the most advanced engineering at any point in its evolution. Newer and newer cameras, film, lenses, and sensors have continually pushed the envelope of science. Since the earliest days where practitioners reveled in grinding their own glass for lenses, mixing ...