lighting

    These high and low-budget setups show you how to light your shot like a scene from Joker
    Mar 2, 2020 John Aldred

    Joker has been one of the biggest movies over the last couple of years, taking home both the best actor and best original score Oscars….

    Lighting setup: bounced top light
    Feb 20, 2020 Jake Hicks

    Studio lighting can be tricky, but in reality shooting, in a big open studio space with all the fancy modifiers and stands is a damn…

    No assistant? No problem — a guide to mobile light diffusion
    Feb 16, 2020 Dan St Louis

    Hi — My name is Dan St. Louis, and I’m the Owner and Head Photographer at HeadShots Inc, a San Francisco-based photography service focused exclusively…

    Watch this introduction to hard vs soft light for beginners
    Feb 6, 2020 John Aldred

    Understanding light, how it works, and the effect it can have on your subject is one of the fundamental principles of photography. It basically determines…

    Paul C. Buff is back with the LINK battery-powered, TTL & HSS-capable strobe
    Jan 14, 2020 John Aldred

    It’s been a while since Paul C Buff has really released anything new. Sure, they announced the “DigiBee” back in 2016, but that was more…

    How to turn your on-camera flash into an off-camera softbox for $30 or less
    Jan 10, 2020 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    There can be many reasons why you don’t have a softbox, but there can also be many situations when you could really use one. I…

    How to shoot atmospheric photos of glass with just a couple of speedlights
    Jan 6, 2020 John Aldred

    Photographing glass can be a very tricky topic if you don’t know how to approach it. It doesn’t react to light the way that most…

    This video helps you master five primary lighting patterns in under ten minutes
    Jan 6, 2020 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    If you’re new to portrait photography, basic lighting patterns are a very useful thing to master. But if you want to use them efficiently, it’s…

    Take a look behind the scenes at the amazing cinematography of HBO’s “Chernobyl”
    Nov 26, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    HBO’s series Chernobyl took the world by the storm shortly after it was first aired, and if you ask me, it’s no surprise. With the…

    How to create the “Corona” lighting effect on your subjects
    Nov 20, 2019 Jake Hicks

    I’m just gonna come clean here and say that I just made up the name ‘corona’ for this lighting setup. In fact, the word corona…