Using the sun to backlight your portraits for a romantic feel
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 me [...]
Review of the O-Flash Ring Flash Adapter
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 a [...]
Video of the 600EX-RT Speedlite & ST-E3-RT Transmitter
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 at [...]
See how lighting effects a subject by using virtual lighting studio
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 having [...]
Controlling your Canon Speedlight from your camera
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 the [...]
Great examples of hollywood lighting
February 12, 2012 by Mark
Filed under Lighting, Shooting Tips & Inspiration
As I was flipping through all of the Oscar contending movies the other day I kept looking at the movie poster for the Artist. It’s a striking black and white image that really captures the feel of lighting that Hollywood become known for during a certain period of time. I have always loved the look [...]
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 [...]
