lighting Archives

The StrobiStrip is the slimmest speedlight strip light adapter available and it’s collapsible

Apr 20, 2016 John Aldred

Strip lights have become quite popular over the last couple of years, and we’ve seen numerous options released compatible with both speedlights, as well for continuous…

How to take ghosted portraits using a mix of gelled lights and strobes

Apr 19, 2016 Udi Tirosh

Some people prefer to use continuous light and some prefer strobes, but if you combine the two you get a certain kind of magic. The…

Need a helicopter searchlight in your next movie? Fiilex have the answer with drone mounted continuous lights

Apr 15, 2016 John Aldred

Mounting lights onto drones seems to be getting popular, all of a sudden, but I suppose it was inevitable. Today, Fiilex announce their new AL250…

Make your own 3D printed speedlight grids

Apr 1, 2016 John Aldred

As somebody who owns what some would describe as a ludicrous amount of speedlights (although, nowhere near as bad as Joe McNally), and regularly grids some of…

Seriously simple portrait lighting for beauty shots

Mar 18, 2016 Gannon Burgett

Lighting a portrait can be as simple or intricate as you want it to be. More often than not though, the concept of ‘less is…

Sony to introduce their own wireless radio flash trigger system

Mar 8, 2016 John Aldred

Sony has announced plans at the WPPI2016 trade fair in Last Vegas to release a “wireless lighting control system to meet the growing demands of…

Profoto unveils collapsable beauty dish that won’t hog up space in your camera bag

Mar 7, 2016 Gannon Burgett

36 years ago, Profoto released a lighting accessory they called the Softlight Reflector. Today, we call this creation a beauty dish, thanks to its unique…