lighting

    Flash Duration: what you need to know and why you need to know it
    Apr 28, 2018 Andrew Appleton

    Flash duration. Sounds a simple enough concept – but is it? Yes…and no. When I decided to write about this subject, I wrestled with how…

    This easy trick will turn any lamp into versatile, dimmable LED light
    Apr 27, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    If you need a lamp in your shot, the regular bulbs have their downsides. They get hot, you can’t dim them, and LED bulbs have…

    These five lighting techniques will help you create scary horror scenes
    Apr 26, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    There are a lot of components that can make a horror movie or photo really scary, and proper lighting is certainly among the most important…

    How to create soft light in tiny spaces with a single light source
    Apr 20, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Not all of us are lucky to have large, spacious studios or apartments. So, you have to work with what you’ve got. In this video…

    Here are 17 quick and easy off-camera lighting recipes to up your flash game
    Apr 17, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    If you want to learn more about lighting setups, here is a fantastic, comprehensive and above all fun video to help you learn. MagMod shares…

    Two photographers going head to head, natural light vs. strobes
    Apr 16, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Natural light or artificial light? Sure, it’s a matter of preference, but photographers Manny Ortiz and Jessica Kobeissi made an interesting challenge out of these…

    Five easy ways to use V-Flats in the studio
    Mar 13, 2018 Chris Ord

    V- Flats, screens, flags, boards, whatever you want to call them. They can be really inexpensive but have a huge value in portrait photography in…

    Product photography lighting: how to make a cheap and lightweight DIY softbox
    Mar 8, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Product photography can be really creative and fun. We’ve often seen it related to interesting DIY solutions, such as the “IKEA lamp hack” or my…

    Elinchrom launches the ELB 500 TTL – Their most powerful portable TTL strobe ever
    Mar 5, 2018 John Aldred

    TTL seems to have become all the rage for big strobes the last few years. There are now TTL strobe options from Godox, Profoto and…

    How colour contamination may be ruining your photographs and how to fix it
    Feb 28, 2018 Jake Hicks

    Whether you’re aware of the correct terminology or not, you have likely experienced this colour contamination happening in your photographs already. Put simply, colour contamination…