Recent content by jim_thomsen

Last year I took a lot of photos of people living in remote villages in Vanuatu. The villages have no electricity, so evenings inside often have only a very small fire to light the room. I did take a number of pictures using the pop up flash on my D7000, but as expected they look terrible (I...

Bryan Peterson, in his Understanding Flash Photography, says "most of today's flashes have an automated distance scale. Tell the flash what aperture you want to use....and it tells you the exact distance your flash needs to be from the subject." I just purchased the SB-700....does it have this...

I live and travel by sailboat, started in Europe in 2006 and now we are in New Zealand. I have owned a D7000 for about a year now and love it! My main interest is travel photography. I just purchased a Sb700 flash and found this great forum while trying to learn to use it. Jim