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

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 [...]

What would you like to learn about lighting?

Awhile back we polled everyone on what some of your top things are you want to learn more about in 2011. There was a wide range of answers but the #1 thing people wanted to learn more about was lighting. For my own work I love to get creative with lighting and am happy to [...]

Photo of the week – using off camera lighting

Sometimes I think as artists we want to create a totally original idea that is something so unique nobody has ever shot it. While I agree that we shouldn’t be strictly coping someone else’s work sometime it can be a great exercise to start with a shot you have seen that you really admire and [...]

Creative off camera lighting

At every shoot I have I always try to do something different. Normally once the dancing has been going on for awhile its a perfect time to give the bride and groom a break and take them outside for a quick shoot. It also normally is nighttime so the perfect opportunity to get some amazing [...]

Nighttime photography for weddings

As things are growing much quicker than I ever imagined with this website one thing I am going to do is set a weekly schedule for posts. More to come on this later but it will give you all a great way to know what is coming on certain days of the week. I still [...]

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