lighting
How to create lighting gradients in your shots with coloured gels
Jan 14, 2021
Jake Hicks
Using coloured gels can be a little unforgiving, especially if you’re new to using strobes. But one of the biggest reasons using gels can be…
This software lets you test movie lights without leaving your home
Jan 9, 2021
Udi Tirosh
It’s no secret that we use Set a Light to test our photo lighting before we start a shoot. (We talked about it here, here,…
There are only 150 Arctic foxes in Norway, here is one with the moon behind it + other stories
Nov 16, 2020
Ole Henrik Skjelstad
Roger Brendhagen has mastered the art of capturing wildlife and birds with backlight. It takes a lot of planning, experience, and patience to nail these…
Parabolic softboxes “make a mockery of the laws of physics” and are “completely unnecessary”
Nov 13, 2020
John Aldred
When somebody begins a video with the phrase “what a load of marketing bulls**t”, they’re about to either make themselves look like an idiot or…
How to turn one light into several for dramatic black and white portraits
Nov 7, 2020
John Aldred
When it comes to using just a single light source in the studio, there is a lot of great content out there, and we’ve covered…
This is how special effects artists made the muscle and “fat” suits for Bill & Ted Face the Music
Oct 23, 2020
John Aldred
Many of us will remember the original adventures of Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston Esq., and their long-awaited third movie was finally released…
How to photograph artwork like a pro with just one light
Oct 21, 2020
Harry Durgin
Scanning artwork certainly has its advantages, but it also has its limitations. Brushstrokes can benefit from a more unidirectional light source. Photographing in a controlled…
This weird dome is a portable light tent for product photography
Oct 7, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orangemonkie/foldio360-smart-dome# Perhaps you’ve already heard of OrangeMonkie, the company behind Foldio collapsible lightboxes. They’re now back with another gadget made for product photography. Foldio360 Smart…
This is my favourite $1 lighting modifier
Sep 30, 2020
Jake Hicks
I’ve always been drawn to interesting looking light. The simple, soft and flat light of softboxes and other standard modifiers rarely hold my attention and…
How to make a giant DIY softbox on a budget
Sep 29, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
We’ve seen and shared our fair share of DIY light modifiers. But how about making a really huge softbox? And it’s not only huge –…