Mastering light means enabling yourself to get fantastic images by making conscious changes to your lighting setup and camera settings. By understanding light, you can extract amazing results to make yourself stand out from the rest. Photographer David Bergman from Adoroma demonstrates how you can add a punch to your regular portraits by using on-axis […]
Flags and nets aren’t just for use outdoors. They can be indispensable tools for just about any studio photographer. When used correctly, flags can shape, manipulate, and direct light with the utmost precision. So tune in and start taking notes as photographer Jay P. Morgan goes over the basics of these underutilized tools: > There are three […]
Lighting is the most important factor in photography and videography. After all, photography is about capturing light. In this video, Emmy award-winning director of photography Fletcher Murray shares five simple lighting tips: 1. Use the Subject’s Nose for Key Light Placement Note the direction in which the subject’s nose is pointing. Extend an imaginary line […]
Whether it be portrait, product, landscape, or even food photography, lighting makes a whole lot of difference. And since artificial lighting can be easily manipulated, photographers love to use it. But it’s the budget factor that stops a lot of us from using strobes. Food and travel photographer Skyler Burt demonstrates how you can shoot food […]
A beauty dish is a portrait photographer’s quintessential lighting tool. Most photographers use a beauty dish in just one or two different ways to enhance skin texture. But it’s a much more versatile tool than you might realize. Miguel Quiles demonstrates five different ways you can use a beauty dish: 1. Clamshell Without Diffusion To […]
Practice makes perfect. Consider football players practicing before a game. While practicing, they do all kinds of things that they wouldn’t do during an actual game. In practice sessions, they push themselves and their skills to their limits, because they want to improve their skills, agility, strength, and decision making. As a photographer, you should […]
A softbox is a commonly used tool that helps in diffusing light from a small source. It takes light from a flash and then virtually converts it into a larger and softer light source by bouncing the light on to a big, white translucent surface. Light coming out of a softbox wraps the subject in […]
Photographers use a variety of lights as a part of their setup to get dramatic effects: key light, fill light, background light, and kicker light. While starting out, it may be difficult financially and technically to use all these lights. Luckily, you can get several different looks with just one light. Photographer Tommy Reynolds explains […]
Photographers are often obsessed with the direction and quality of light. But it’s not necessary for you own the best lighting equipment to take some fantastic looking images. Photographer Irene Rudnyk demonstrates how she uses table lamps and natural window lighting to take gorgeous indoor portraits: As Rudnyk demonstrates in the video, she first lights […]
When it comes to still life photography, it’s necessary to capture the proper details, shape, highlights, and textures to step it up to the next level. Daniel Norton from Adorama explains how you can use your lighting setup to capture the detail of the product while shooting still life. To do this, he uses a […]
