lighting
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…
Rotolight’s teams up with Elinchrom to bring high speed sync to the world of LED lighting
Sep 6, 2017
John Aldred
This was a bit of an unexpected announcement. At least, it was for me. Although, I admit that I haven’t really followed the world of…
How to get awesome photos with a boring background
Sep 5, 2017
John Aldred
Shooting indoors, especially in somebody’s home, often leads to some rather dull backgrounds. Usually, you’re stuck with just a bare solid coloured wall. But whether…
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…
Watch 3 photographers shoot the same model with off camera flash
Sep 4, 2017
Francisco Joel Hernandez
After seeing Jessica Kobeissi’s ‘3 photographers shoot the same model’ video, where she and fellow photographers Irene and Ruby challenge each other to photograph a model with…
4 lighting hacks you need to know to make your fashion photos and videos better
Aug 14, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
One of the key conditions for getting amazing shots and telling the story is choosing the proper lighting. In Apurture’s latest video, fashion cinematographer Kazu…
This is why you should use soft light for portraits and how to make it
Aug 9, 2017
John Aldred
The choice for shooting hard vs soft light is quite an easy one for many people. But if you don’t understand what the difference is,…
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…