lighting

    How to shoot portraits on location with outdoor flash
    Oct 31, 2016 John Aldred

    Using flash on location is one of the best things you can to really push your outdoor portraits. Often, the natural light might give you…

    5 top tips to improve your food photography
    Oct 24, 2016 John Aldred

    Food photography is something we’ve pretty much all tried. Even if our gastronomical efforts are only limited to Instagram, it helps to be able to…

    Here’s how to burst that double gel bubble with Pre-Vis!
    Oct 24, 2016 Joseph Parry

    Two things happened to lead to this portrait, a last minute reschedule from a client and a mess around in Set.A.Light 3D Studio. Then it…

    Light up your shot with a flying 1000 Watt LED floodlight
    Oct 17, 2016 John Aldred

    Last year, we showed you rctestflight’s crazy 1000 Watt LED light bar. Made from 10 individual smaller lights, it gives a total output of around 90,000…

    The laws of light cannot be broken but they can be controlled
    Oct 14, 2016 John Aldred

    Without light, there would be no such thing as photography. But simply having light isn’t enough. Cameras turn our three dimensional world into a two…

    A behind the scenes look at photo coverage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Canada
    Oct 7, 2016 Gary Nylander

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were ever so kind to drop into Kelowna as part of their royal tour of British Columbia and the…

    How I built a killer lightbox with LEDs
    Oct 7, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    We saw Colin G Prickett’s light bo and was blown away. Lucky us! Colin sent us the complete build if you want to build one…

    A real softbox for LED lights (and how to extend an Osmo)
    Sep 30, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    If you are using LED panels, there is a good chance you are using them bare, or with a diffusion panel.  If you need a bigger…

    Top 5 things that changed the game with Clay Cook
    Sep 18, 2016 Joseph Parry

    I’m not sure if you guys are up to date on who Clay Cook is, but you should be. Because as I speak he’s on…

    Photographers recreate classic Top Gun scene with upside down jet to test a photography myth
    Sep 14, 2016 John Aldred

    For anybody who’s seen the legendary movie Top Gun, there’s one scene often sticks out in the mind. In it, a fictional MiG-28 is cruising through the…