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flashgun
noun
An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb
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Cherokee, which was equipped with a digital camera and a flashgun, started transmitting images of golden and dark-brown objects, 50-70mm across, that were scattered among the worms and clams (see photograph).
Compared to much of Gilden's other work, "Hey Mister" plays in a rather staid gray scale (snapped without the flashgun that would later become his signature), and many shots are taken at a greater distance than the close encounters for which the photographer is known.
The people didn't know what photography was and were fascinated by the wiggly cable connecting the camera and flashgun.
In July's new first issue, Faith also discovers her Kryptonite when she gets zapped with a flashgun that cancels out her psiot powers.
A vampire gets a job as a press photographer, but inconveniently turns to dust when his flashgun goes off.
I work with a medium-format camera and a large flashgun, so I am very evidently a photographer.
Elvis's chocolate-fur-covered sofa, canary yellow scatter cushions, caramel-coloured pelmets: all are rendered with the morbid eye and lurid flashgun of a crime scene photographer moonlighting for an interiors magazine.
Mostly it echoes with the acoustic challenge set by pontificating architectural tour groups armed with flashgun cameras.
I doubt I would have been invited into his family home if I had used a flashgun.
If you have a flashgun and you're shooting indoors, set it up separately – at, say, 45 degrees from the camera – and direct it at your subject.
Martin Parr answers my questions in explosive bursts – pop, pop, pop – like a flashgun being fired straight into my face.
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