Lighting – Keep it simple

Sometimes I think people can get way too caught up with the gear of photography. When you start getting into lighting you can really start getting gear crazy, you want multiple lights, radio slaves, light modifiers, etc…. Sometimes though keeping your lighting ultra simple can be your best bet and still allow you [...]

Hollywood lighting

Ruth Wylie- Hollywood lighting., originally uploaded by FlyWheel Photography.

I know some photographers who think that some of the classic photography from years past is dated and boring. Photographers today want that ultra sexy, hot and contemporary shot that just knocks everyone’s socks off. But just like with anything we can always learn a [...]

Off camera lighting for weddings

Sometimes I love shooting a bride and groom at night. When you get to use all artificial light, you can get get so creative and really have some fun with the shoot. Sometimes when photographing a wedding you always don’t have a lot of time set aside to shoot images of the bride [...]

Creative lighting for first dance photos

One part of the wedding day that I really love to photograph (actually I love it all, but for the sake of this article one part I really love) is the first dance and father/daughter, mother/son dance. Normally these are in the reception venue where the lights come down, creating a nice dark room. [...]

Vivitar 285 HV Flash

Sometimes people think with off camera lighting you need expensive, big gear to slug around all day with you. They get scared of off camera lighting because they think it is too difficult to learn or for wedding photographers that it will slow them down too much. Today we are going to review [...]

Intro to lighting (The Art of lighting)

The Art of Lighting is such a key part of photography and unfortunately sometimes overlooked. WIth all of the progressions in technology in cameras and in on camera flash, you can get a decent image even in a dark reception hall without knowing much about lighting. But for your wedding photos who wants [...]

Photo of the Week 10-12-09

We are going to lead our new website off with a feature that will be a weekly educational piece on our site.  We will share a recent image (most of these will be from actual client shoots, so you can get real world examples) and give you the thought process that went behind the image [...]