lighting
Mixing Continuous And Strobe Lights For Portraits
For me, I’ve always used studio strobes as strobes, but Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz over at AurumLight reminds us that if you have access to a studio…
Using Free Forming Florescent Tubes For Creative Lighting
One of the things with using traditional strobes and lightstands is the way that it limits you in space. This is why when I saw…
How To Build A Kick Ass 4 Feet DIY Ring Light
Ring lights have a very specific light signature. Mostly it is connected with fashion photography as it gives out a very flattering light. The light…
Understanding Lighting With An Egg
Happy Easter/Passover everyone! I thought that this little video is a good fit for today, as the main character here is the Egg (no offense,…
Build A CFL Based Continuous Light Source
I love using continuous light sources. At first it was all about the fact that unlike strobes, I could see the light at all time…
How To Build A Nicely Diffused Strip Light
In my kid-days from long ago, I liked to bang on things with my toy hammer and play with a pretend saw. As a kid…
How To Make A Snoot From A Coca-Cola Bottle
I guess that snoots are one of those things that you can make out of almost any substance. As a kid, I used to listed…
Using Household Lights For Cinematic Lighting
A few days back we posted a video by The Underwater Realm that shows how to build and use an air cannon to create a…
Using Moving Strobes In A Timelapse
Videographer J. P. Morgan put up another video describing how to shoot a time-lapse. It is a bit different from the regular time-lapse sequences we…
Using Different Sized Softboxes For Portraiture
Have you ever wondered what softbox you should use when doing portraiture? If you only have one softbox, there is an easy answer, but if…






































