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 [...]

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 [...]

Great examples of hollywood lighting

Tweet 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 [...]

An Intro To Off Camera Lighting

Tweet 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 [...]

Photographing in outdoor shade

Tweet Not all shade is created equal. Learning to see all of the very intricate differences in light and the quality of light can be one of the best things to learn. I am continually learning to see light in a new way and constantly have to train my brain to see things as the [...]

What would you like to learn about lighting?

Tweet 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 [...]

Lighting – Keep it simple

Tweet 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 to [...]

Using video lights for creative photography

Tweet I mentioned awhile back how the first dance and some of the dancing at a wedding as one of my favorite times to shoot (creative wedding reception lighting article here). The reason is with a nice dark dance floor is the the perfect opportunity to get creative with lighting. One thing that I love [...]