lighting
Lessons on properly lighting dark-skinned actors from “Insecure” director of photography Ava Berkofsky
Sep 15, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
How to properly light the model depends on several aspects, and one of them is skin color. Insecure’s director of photography, Ava Berkofsky, makes the…
How to fire your strobes 3 different ways and when to use each one
Sep 13, 2017
John Aldred
All the time, I see new flash and strobe owners ask “How do I fire these things?, which isn’t an unreasonable question. For speedlights, it’s…
Does the Rotolight Neo 2 live up to the hype? This photographer doesn’t think so
Sep 8, 2017
John Aldred
I wrote about the announcement of the new Rotolight Neo 2 a couple of days ago. Looking at the specs, I wasn’t really all that…
Turn your bathroom into a natural light softbox for amazing portraits
Sep 7, 2017
John Aldred
When most portrait photographers want to create a directional soft light look, they break out the strobes. Then they usually stick a big octabox on…
Photonicz is a Strobe/LED hybrid that can take a splash and keep working
Sep 4, 2017
John Aldred
So, this is an interesting, if rather unusual idea. Photonicz is an LED based strobe (a world’s first, apparently) designed to offer the advantages of…
This is how to shoot a $2,500,000 car with a $50,000 camera
Jul 31, 2017
John Aldred
There’s only a hundred Pagani Huayra BC in the world, and each one costs a cool $2.5mil. The “BC” in its designation stands for Benny…
This short movie shows the difference between diffused, double diffused and hard light
Jul 30, 2017
Udi Tirosh
Most large modifiers come with two diffusers. A big one for the outer rim and a smaller one that fits between the source of light…
How to make cheap 2-point lighting setup without lighting gear
Jul 19, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you prefer working with natural light, with clever positioning of the subject and some DIY magic you get two light sources from a single…
Coloring shadows can make your photo, this is how you do it with gels
Jul 14, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Do you use gels to add color to your photos? Jay P. Morgan shows you four different ways to use them, but with a twist…
Make a DIY portable beauty dish for less than $10
Jul 10, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
The beauty dish is an important piece of lighting gear for portrait and beauty shots. Joe Edelman will show you how to make a DIY…