Lighting Tips
Love Lighting With Strobes Outdoors! Use an ND filter For a Shallow Depth Of Field
Want to shoot outdoor strobe light portraits with a shallow depth of field, but have no clue how? Hint: Grab a neutral density filter!
Super Cheap DIY Diffuser & A Short Color Grading Tutorial to Get That ‘Cinematic’ Look
Short on cash? Here's a cheap hack to get some nice diffusion for a cinematic look and a bonus color grading tutorial.
Stop Shooting for Neutral ‘White-Balanced’ Light! Try This Instead.
If you ever find yourself primarily shooting white balanced, neutral light, this article will show you how using colored gels can add emotion to your photographs.
How I Shot It – A Quirky Composite of “The Noble Family” by Paul Monaghan
This image is rather special to me, not only because the family loved it, but it also placed high in "The 1st SNS Exhibition" held by Samyang in January this year.
Perception and Reality: Seeing People In A Different Light
Sebastian Petrovski's Perception is Reality series questions what we actually perceive and what is actual truth.
The Beautiful Lie: The Process of Product Photography for Advertising
In photographing products for advertisements, there is a lot of preparation, discussion, and organization that will go into making 'the' image. In this article, I will try to show you the process of an advertising shoot from both points of view: photographer as well as the retoucher, since I do both.
Learning Lighting For Video | From Stills to Motion
In this article, I'll be covering some basic lighting theories for video as well as some of our favorite lights we use at SLRLounge.
Muslin Backdrops for Artistic Portraiture: Silverlake Backdrop Review
I've got a few backdrop ideas to cycle through which I'll be sharing here as I try them out, but the first one in the experiment was the painted muslin backdrop.
In Broad Daylight: Flash in the Sun with High-Speed Sync
High-speed sync flash opens up entirely new realms of opportunity. It’s not inexpensive to do, but it’s an invaluable option in my photography toolkit that sets me apart from other photographers.
Elinchrom Announces Drool-Worthy ELC Pro HD High Speed Flashes
Elinchrom has just launched a new range of lust-worthy studio monolights. The new ELD Pro HD Compacts 500 and the 1000 model, are claimed by Elinchrom, to be the most complete and feature rich compact flash studio units.
Create a Mobile Photography Studio
Creative set ups for taking portraits without a dedicated studio space, using natural and artificial light. In part 1, I simply show you what I have in my mobile photography kit and why I chose it.
Creating Hard, Punchy, And Dramatic Light With Profoto & Andrea Belluso (BTS)
Creating hard, punchy light creates great drama, and is done well and with ease, as shown in the BTS with Profoto and Andrea Belluso.
