Posts by Author: Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
Studio Lighting – Lighting Diagrams, Planning and Explaining
Oct 6, 2007
Udi Tirosh
Sometimes you want to make a diagram of your photo session. (OK, sometimes you don’t, but sometimes you do). I, for example, am going to…
Lighting – High Key and Low Key
Oct 4, 2007
Udi Tirosh
After discussing contrast at a very top level view, I would like to introduce two twins, closely related to contrast – High Key and Low…
Studio Lighting – Homemade Gridspot
Oct 1, 2007
Udi Tirosh
Gridspot (or grid) is a studio accessory that you can attach to your flash. When the flash fires through the grid, the spread of the…
Back to Basics – Contrast
Sep 27, 2007
Udi Tirosh
In the last few weeks I’ve covered the basic exposure controls like aperture and shutter speed. I’ve also discussed the concept of depth of field…
The Standard 3-Point Lighting Technique
Sep 22, 2007
Udi Tirosh
One of the oldest lighting techniques in the book is called “Three Point Lighting”. It is vastly used in studio photography and by snobby fashion…
DIY built-in pop-up flash diffuser (soft screen)
Sep 22, 2007
Udi Tirosh
Why spend a fortune on an on-camera softscreen diffuser? (OK, 9 dollars are hardly a fortune, yet…). This guest post by Huy Hoang shows you…
Studio lighting – Homemade Softbox Ring For SB or Flash Speedlight
Sep 15, 2007
Udi Tirosh
Tim from Chicago was using translucent umbrellas to get diffusion out of his flash speedlights. This was his home grown studio. When he switched to…
Back To Basics – Exposure Demostrated
Sep 12, 2007
Udi Tirosh
After talking so much about exposure and the controls you can use to, em.. well… control it, I thought I’d bring up some info that…
DIY – Using Clamps As Flash Light Stands
Sep 7, 2007
Udi Tirosh
As part of the light stand frenzy that’s been going on here, I thought I’d introduce you to another way of placing a flash on…
DIY – Homemade Speedlite “Snoot”
Aug 31, 2007
Udi Tirosh
This guest post was written by Leann Wrightsman, a photo DIY-er extraordinaire. This snoot making article has one of the best effort to result ratio….