LIGHTING

One Light Product Photography

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Product photography with one monobloc flash and softbox and a cubus.Very simple lighting set up that is easy for starters and some samples.

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One Light Beauty Photography Setup

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Achieve ad-campaign worthy beauty images with this simple one-light setup.

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DIY Studio Lighting

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DIY Studio Lighting

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Traditional Lighting Setups

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  Traditional Lighting Setups - Mark answers a viewer’s question about broad and short light with regard to studio lighting. Join Mark in the studio as [...]

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Understanding the Beauty Dish

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  The many uses of the Beauty Dish.

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LED Video Lights in Use

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A fun little skit the guys decided to put together with cheap LED light panels and a few Z96 LED video lights. The piece was [...]

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240 LED Lights with AA to Sony NP battery adapter

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These 240 Color changing Dimmable LED lights disappeared before anyone knew about them, but they’re back with a few new options like Barndoors and a [...]

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DIY Beauty Dish

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DIY Beauty Dish Scott shows us how to make a very low cost modifier for our dedicated flash units. The beauty dish, so called because [...]

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Shooting on location.

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On this shoot I show the techniques for lighting on location for some fashion and sexy model photography!

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Glamour lighting trick

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Glamour lighting trick

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1-Light Portraiture: Tony Corbell & Profoto D1

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Tony Corbell demonstrates 1-light portraiture techniques using the Profoto D1

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BTS Photography Behind the Scenes

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Behind the Scenes of a Strobist on location photoshoot with Conceptual Photographer, Ben Sant of BTS Photography. We go out to the shores of the [...]

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The Importance of The Inverse Square Law

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In this week’s episode Mark Wallace explains the Inverse Square law and how it applies to photography and helps you calculate light fall off.

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Lighting Jana

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I used 3 monoblocs for the light.Two were used as rim lights to give pop to the hair and an other one through barndoors was [...]

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Flash Lighting in Studio Set Ups / Diagrams

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Here are a few lighting diagrams from recent studio shots : Bare monobloc studio flash positioned behind model, camera left. Monobloc via shoot-through umbrella close [...]

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High Key & Low Key Lighting

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In it’s simplest terms a high key image is a bright image full of light and mostly white tones whilst a low key image is [...]

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Reception Lighting

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The gear we use to shoot reception detail shots at weddings!

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On Camera Flash Basics Explained

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There are ways that we can modify the on-camera flash to control our lighting. We can bounce our flash from ceilings, walls, or off of [...]

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The Best DIY Beauty Dish

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An instructional video on how to make the best DIY beauty dish.

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Using Natural Light

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In this episode Mark has some simple lighting tips that can help to improve your photos in different natural light situations.

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Studio Lighting Setup With A Homemade Ring Light Video

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Photography : Studio Lighting Setup with DIY Ring Light

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Video light test with Anouk

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Check out Anouk Matton’s dancing video test : Scenes come from one long shot testing light

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Light Painting at Night

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Light painting is the process of photographing at night and illuminating the scene by moving the camera, or a handheld light/torch. The actual source of [...]

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Photographing Food With Spot Lighting

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Since one of the most important aspects of photography is how to control your lighting, today I’ll be explaining how to perfectly light a scene [...]

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Working with Interior Light

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Even on a cloudy day, when you step indoors, the level of the light drops by more than 5 f-stops. So, on that same cloudy [...]

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The Basics of Three Point Lighting

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Three point lighting is often the best way to create a flattering portrait, shoot a great headshot and make an interview on video look professional. [...]

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One Light Portraits For Beautiful Results

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I think what will be surprising for many of you watching today’s tutorial will be the utter simplicity of the set-up. I’ll show you a [...]

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Using Reflector Panels

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Chris Burfoot discusses both pop-up and California Sunbounce reflector panels

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Flash Photography With The Elinchrom Octa

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Chris Burfoot demonstrates the Elinchrom Octa, a giant softbox, used as a white background. +  demonstrates the Elinchrom Octa, a giant softbox, used as a [...]

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Shooting models with the universal canon off camera shoe cord and a speedlite.

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I got myself a universal off camera shoe cord at Calumet that should be compatible with ALL the speedlites. It’s a handy tool for shooting [...]

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Break the Bank – BYU Photo

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Enjoy this behind the scenes look at BYU Photo during a photo shoot that breaks the bank. Using the new Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5, [...]

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Smoke Photography Video Tutorial

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Terry Watson shows his technique for doing Smoke Photography

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Lighting Hotel Rooms

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Taking photos and lighting in hotel rooms :

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Developing of Dark Flash

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Camera flashes produce intrusive bursts of light that disturb or dazzle. We present a prototype camera and flash that uses infra-red and ultra-violet light mostly [...]

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Metering A White Background

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Consider if the subject in the foreground was holding a piece of the white background seamless paper next to their face with only the key [...]

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Light, shadow, and specularity

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Want full control over the light and shadows in your photography? Understanding how light works is necessary, and this paper will attempt to explain how [...]

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Incident v.s. Reflected Light Metering

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Metering with your digital camera: Incident v.s. Reflected. Covers metering tricks with these two techniques and shows how to improve exposure in your images.

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How to use a Light Meter

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Kerry Garrison from CameraDojo.com demonstrates how to use a light meter to get good exposures during a quick product shoot.

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Light-test brings photo assistants’ uploaded lighting tests.

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Light-Test.com brings you uploaded lighting test photos from assistants and photographers

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Using grids with your studio flashes

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How to use lighting grids for professional studio photography

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Photography Lighting Tutorial – Strip Lighting Light Tec Tip

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Using strip lighting in the studio

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How to Set Up and Use Studio Lighting

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This is a clip from a full length video that will show you how to set up and begin to use your studio lighting

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Get Your Flash On Axis With Umbrella

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The swivel (or umbrella holder) is designed in a way that the umbrella does not go exactly 90 degrees into the shaft. It is tilted [...]

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Flash techniques

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This video explains how the flash works on your camera and how it is controlled in photography to make correct exposures

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Home made diy speedlite flash snoot

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This snoot making article has one of the best effort to result ratio. You usually use a snoot when you want only a small part [...]

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How to Make a DIY Ring Flash Tutorial

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You like Ring Flashes but you can’t pay the price? I have a solution for you, and it doesn’t involve stealing one from a store! [...]

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