Our Most Popular Photography Lighting Articles
Tweet Lighting can be one of the trickiest things when you are first learning photography. It’s one of the most common questions I get from people just starting out and especially when it comes to using off camera light can be something that can be a little overwhelming to learn. I’ve created some lighting tutorials [...]
How to use Canon Speedlights with multiple flashes
Tweet One of the questions I get most of on how to use off camera lighting. I have posted various lighting tutorials and info and you can browse through some of them in this category: Digital Photo Buzz Lighting Tutorials But today I ran across a really great video that I think many of you [...]
Overpowering the sun with your speedlight
Tweet One thing that I love to do with my flashes during the day is to have them overpower the sun to create dramatic light. A really cool part about some of the latest flash gear is that it allows you to shoot at any shutter speed and this gives you a ton of creative [...]
Save 15% on Steel Training’s Flash Photography Video Course
Tweet Save 15% on Steel Training’s Flash Photography Video Course One question that I have recieved over and over again from my readers is how to effectively use a speedlight for portraits. Flash photography is still a very big mystery to many of you but something that once you have a handle on can make [...]
The importance of adding just a little bit of light to your photos
Tweet The importance of adding just a little bit of light to your photos. Sometimes you might be photographing during the day with a nice soft shade or other good lighting situation and totally forget all about the flash in your bag. We can tend to leave the flash or other lights in our camera [...]
Using the sun to backlight your portraits for a romantic feel
Tweet On of the most beautiful times to photograph people, or landscapes, or just about anything is around that golden hour of sunset. With portraits most of the time your first tendency is to shoot them with your subjects basking in that beautiful golden sunlight. It’s one of the things I always remember people telling [...]
Review of the O-Flash Ring Flash Adapter
Tweet Review of the O-Flash Ring Flash Adapter for speedlights A ring flash can give you many cool advantages compared to using a normal on camera speedlight. We covered some advantages of using a ring light for portraits awhile back and today wanted to review the O-Flash ring adapter that can turn any speedlight into [...]
Video of the 600EX-RT Speedlite & ST-E3-RT Transmitter
Tweet For my wedding work I love to use off camera lighting and am always looking for ways to streamline my lighting systems. When you are on the go at a wedding and sometimes only have 2 minutes to quickly light up a shot, you have to use a very portable lighting system. Many times [...]
See how lighting effects a subject by using virtual lighting studio
Tweet Part of getting your lighting really nailed down is the simple fact of being able to really see the light. This can be tricky for new photographers to see though since when you are using flash you never really see the light stay on your live subject long enough to study what effect its [...]
Controlling your Canon Speedlight from your camera
Tweet One thing that most camera manufactures haven’t historically done a great job in is the user interface of menus. From flashes to your camera navigating through menus to make quick changes aren’t always quick. Although I have used many different Canon speedlights over the years I still don’t find it easy to navigate through [...]
