Anyone reading my blog for any amount of time knows how much I love sharing my passion for photography and I love teaching other photographers things that totally make their day. For the longest time I’ve been sharing lighting tutorials, composition tips, equipment comparisons on small blog posts but I’ve been wanting to share even [...]
January 31st, 2011 – Salt Lake City, UT to Portland, OR iPhone using Hipstamatic (a great photography app) Steven Wood and I landed at 6:04PM, drove straight from the Portland Airport to Stereoblind studio where we met our two hosts along with two models and two stylists. This would be the first day of a [...]
Great lighting is all about the modifiers. Whether it is the clouds that filter harsh sunlight or the light shaping tools that attach to the front of your strobes – the way you control the light can have subtle (or extreme) differences on your subject. I photographed three models using all the same equipment – [...]
First of all, I have no idea why there isn’t a standard name for octagonal softboxes, every company uses their own name – Elinchrom Octa, Photoflex Octodome, Hensel Octaform… it gets confusing! That said the Octagon shaped soft-box is one of my favorite light modifiers. Not only does it make for beautiful catchlights it also [...]
Behind the Scenes at Trolley Square Mall As part of The Hive gallery’s fashion month we did a live shoot at the mall (during open hours) for the public to come watch! It was tons of work, tons of fun and we had a great turn out of spectators! Here is a behind the scenes [...]
4 Lights A Step by Step guide Here is a step-by-step lighting diagram guide showing how I set up this particular 4-strobe shot. The images next to the diagrams are straight out of the camera, also you’ll notice I don’t really make the model pose too carefully while I’m doing the light setup. See the [...]
Lighting Diagrams I get lots of questions about lighting, so I thought I’d layout some shots and how I lit (or is it lighted?) them. Hopefully this will be fairly informative, let me know what you think and if you have any special requests! Illustrations that I used to create these diagrams are courtesy of [...]
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