A quick 3 light setup for wedding portraits
When most people start out with photography I know that once the light goes down you tend to throw the flash on top of your camera and start firing away. I am a huge fan of quick, portable off camera flash and have written many articles for this site on how to use off camera [...]
Adding Light To Buildings For Night Portraits
As many of you know I love to shoot a few portraits at my weddings at night. There is something about the blank canvas you have with a completely dark scene that really intrigues me and always allows for so much creativity. Another thing I really like about setting up a shot at night is [...]
Photography Lighting For Wedding Night Portraits
One of my favorite parts of a wedding is the very end of the evening. For me it’s always a fun time to let the bride and groom take a 5 minute break and try to capture something that is really unique and different than what they are used to for wedding photos. It gives [...]
Using Off Camera Lighting For Portraits
Last week I asked everyone on Twitter and Facebook what some things are that you would like to learn to improve your photography. The most common answer was lighting which was awesome for me to hear since I love off camera lighting and was just thinking of creating more posts about creative lighting. I have [...]
Using Flash Exposure Compensation (FEC)
We did a post a little while back about using exposure compensation with flash. Exposure compensation can be a great way to use flash during the day and make the background a few stops lighter than the subject. I love to use this with weddings to make my subject really stand out. But what if [...]
An Intro To Off Camera Lighting
An Introduction to using off camera lighting If you have followed this site for awhile you know how much of a fan I am of off camera lighting. I really do hate to place my flash on camera and will only do so in certain situations where I am moving around a lot (like covering [...]
Photography Tip – Learning to see with new eyes
Tweet Photography Tip – Learning to see with new eyes I have been working on an article on how the camera ‘see’ differently than our eyes. There are so many differences between the human eye and the camera that having a good understanding of these differences really do help us in our photography. While photographing [...]
Off camera lighting for weddings
I have written a lot of posts about off camera lighting and how I love to use it in many different ways for weddings. There are so many creative uses for off camera lighting and I think it can add such a unique look to your images. If you missed some of my past posts [...]
PocketWizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 now available for Nikon
Nikon users rejoice, pockewizard has announced their MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 radio transmitters are now available for NIkon! I reviewed these units for the Canon awhile back here, Pocketwizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 review and have absolutely loved using them this past year. Being able to use high speed flash synch along with ETTL has been so [...]
Using fill flash to improve your photos
January 6, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lighting, Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Using Fill Flash To Improve Outdoor Photography I talked a little on using Fill flash for outdoor portraits a few weeks back with a example of how to use off camera lighting to fill in shadow areas of the image. Today I wanted to take a little bit of a step back and review what [...]
