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DIY DSLR Ring-Flash Videos

Lightpainting Light Sabers

My latest enthusiasm in photography has been nightwork and lightpainting. A lot of my work is done with a simple pen torch, a flashlight and [...]

A video discussing the quality of light in photography, using a one light source lighting set-up.

How to Choose Studio Lighting

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the [...]

There is so much talk on some forums about the ’softness’ of shoot-thru umbrellas and how much it works to provide a soft light. And [...]

Photographing cars with one speedlight flash and softbox

Photographing people wearing glasses – dealing with reflections

What lighting setups should I use? A guide through several lighting set-ups for studio work.

Annie Leibovitz and Sean Connery photo shoot for Vuitton behind the scenes video

Walk into most professional photographer’s studios and you’ll be confronted with truckloads of lighting equipment. To the average hobby photographer it’s enough to make [...]

Lighting simulator Light Cage

Here is a great lighting simulator to plan and test your portrait lighting with one light source + fill light if wished

Studio Quality High Key Lighting Without The Studio

How to create the high key image outdoors 1. Set up a white diffuser or diffusion panel behind your subject like a backdrop. (Make sure [...]

Lighting Basics – Using a single light source

The main problem with using an on-camera flash is the same as using the built-in flash, the light goes straight at the subject and flattens [...]

Using manual flashes with PC Sync

The first thing we need to do is to connect the lights to your camera, for this we are going to need what is called [...]

Photography Basics: Beginners Guide to Aperture

Inside each lens is a diaphragm that can open and close, the size of the opening at any given setting is what we refer to [...]

Lighting: Forget that Square Softbox

The most popular studio lighting accessory? Hands down, the square softbox. Whether mini 12×12-inchers or 50×50-inch monsters, these boxy lighting tools are often the first [...]

Pocket wizard strobist – The Strobist Jet Pack

Avoiding double reflections in photography

First thing was to place a black Bristol board on the table and then place a clear nylon sheet on top of it. (Actually, the [...]

Studying Light in Photography

Quantity Among all the aspects of light, quantity is the easiest to control and manipulate. In fact, most of the controls found on your camera [...]

Using multiple Canon Ex flashes tutorials.

“ The artificial lighting learning curve for most photographers starts with a built-in flash or external flash mounted above the viewfinder. The photographs they take [...]

Using A Cooling Honeycomb As A DIY Photography Gridspot

I just love gridspots. The amount of light control that a gridspot will give you is incredible. So, a while back I ordered some honeycomb [...]

Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed

What I’m aiming for is the article I wish I’d found when I first got my camera, to help explain the relationship between three critically [...]

How to Shoot Professional Images in Low Light

Low light…it can be a photographer’s nightmare. But here are some basic techniques that I use daily to overcome this obstacle. Some of this may [...]

A quick start guide to the one light setup

1) Setup your single light source (It can be a continuous source, a low power strobe or a 100 watt flash). 2) Make sure you [...]

Consistent Portrait Photos.

In this lesson we show how to set up and shoot the perfect portrait every time. With a few simple tips and tricks, you can [...]

Fashion Portrait.

With only a couple of well placed lights and a little imagination, shooting a fashion portrait can be easy. Lighting Equipment * Photoflex Boom * [...]

Fill Flash Concepts.

In the studio you use a low-key or high-key background to create contrast between the background and the face. Which key is most effective for [...]

Fashion Photography Lighting

In the world of fashion and high-end portrait photography, lighting is the key to professional-looking images. Having the ability to control the light that falls [...]

Interior Photography Lighting With Multiple Strobes

Set the ISO to 400 – this gives you much greater latitude with the strobes. Set the aperture to f/6.3 as a good starting point. [...]

Photographing 2-Dimensional Artwork.

Lighting and photographing two-dimensional objects such as framed paintings and prints so that they look professionally rendered can be considerably more challenging than in other [...]

Portrait Lighting For Beginners: Portraits With One Light.

Why start with just one light? Because you can get amazing portraits, that’s why. Did I mention less equipment, less complication, less cost, and less [...]

Overclock your flash sync speed.

Facial Angles in Photography.

The angles of the human face and body people consider visually pleasing are universal regardless of the medium. Movie directors and cinematographers are masters of [...]

Lighting Ratios Video

Experimenting with Ring Flash as Fill Light

For better or worse, my goal is for this experience to serve as a sort of template for how I approach a new lighting technique.

Lighting angles in photography.

Natural Lighting Artificial lighting Lighting Angles How many lights do you need? Lighting Ratios Photography is the art of illusion, tricking the viewer into thinking [...]

One Speedlight: Some Examples.

This week we are going to look at using one speedlight with no modifications… no umbrellas or softboxes to modify the light, just the bare [...]

Flash photography basics video.

Understanding Camera Exposure Modes.

Shooting in full manual mode will always be the best way to get the most creative shot since you are in control of everything. But [...]

How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography.

Capturing movement in images is something that many photographers only think to do when they are photographing sports or other fast moving subjects. While there [...]

Using Your Small Strobes for Professional Results.

Let’s establish a few ground rules for what we are going to be doing. First, this isn’t an ETTL, CLS, or any other kind of [...]

Tim Kent interview about lighting a car. Check the lighting diagram lighting a hummer in the studio.

Sometimes people look at my images and think that the more unusual lighting effects are created in post, but it’s all done in-camera. I did [...]

Strobist Lighting 102: 7.1 – Flash Zoom and Stone Soup.

The fourth time-based manipulation I frequently use is zooming through the exposure. And last month we pulled that technique out of our as.. bag of [...]

3 Slow Shutter Speed Techniques.

There has been some great articles and interest lately on long exposures so I thought I would put together a hodgepodge of techniques and then [...]

Flash – Ambient Light Balance: A Shorthand Way of Thinking.

By now, most of you have read many times as I have walked through the process of balancing my flashes and ambient. I want to [...]

How to Use Your In-Camera Spot Meter.

We’ve mentioned in previous posts how in-camera metering can be very unreliable. It can meter the scene differently even if the subject and lighting do [...]

Light Modifiers 101.

When going through the more advanced websites about lighting, you’re bound to run into a lot of terms you’re not familiar with. In this article, [...]

Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card for Photography.

When ever we use a light source to illuminate an object, that object is being hit with multiple “rays” of light. Some of those rays [...]

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