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Benjamin Von Wong is a commercial and editorial photographer based in Montreal. In this post we try to get inside his brains with some Q&A about a recent concept shoot: Mrs Scissorhands.

If you are just in it for the awesome lighting jump to the last part. If you want the whole enchilada, we start right after the jump.

Oh yea, we'll be seeing a lot more of Ben here on DIYP soon. Click to continue ›

I always love sharing images by readers and sometimes it is not the high end productions that are shared, but the ones that will produce a smile on the last day of the week.

Aside from being fun images, the couple below are also great little projects to run during the weekend with your kids.

Here are two great photos posted in the group pool / blog comments. Click to continue ›

It would be very pretentious of me to declare that looking at the photographs and diagrams below will teach you how to light. That said, looking at the photographs and setups and trying to understand the motivation behind the lighting will give you a good start when dealing with similar lighting dilemmas.

You can always come back to this post to see how a particular image was lit to make a similar setup or to use it as a stepping stone for your own. Click to continue ›

A few weeks back I was asked by my daughter's kindergarten teacher to come and take everyone's portraits of a kindergarten custom party.

Of course I said yes. Then I hit me. I am scared sick from staying home alone with my daughter and one of her friends, how the heck am I going to manage 35 kids running around?

OK, I'll talk about kids a bit later. Before this let's talk setup. 

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