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Lighting 101 Photography Workshop

Lighting 101 Photography Workshop

With flash, you can create any stylistic vision—you just need to know how to control the light. But where do you start? SLR Lounge’s new lighting workshop was designed to give you a solid foundation in flash photography from beginner to advanced. Found here: Lighting 101: Foundation and Light Shaping Join SLR Lounge on dozens […]

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Step-by-Step Beauty Shoot Lighting Tutorial

Step-by-Step Beauty Shoot Lighting Tutorial

Lighting is all about emphasizing the best characteristics in your subject and hiding the flaws. In beauty photography you have to make the flaws seem non-existent, while putting the beauty front and center. We’ve gotten so used to this that in most glamour shots it’s impossible to tell where the real person ends and where […]

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A Simple Lighting Setup for Kitchen Portraits

A Simple Lighting Setup for Kitchen Portraits

To say lighting is an important ingredient of photography is an understatement. Lighting is everything in photography. It brings all the other elements together like the magic ingredient in Mom’s favorite recipe. In this quick video, photographer Gina Silva and her crew demonstrate how a simple lighting setup can produce stunning photos in one of […]

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DIY Photography Studio Lighting on the Cheap

DIY Photography Studio Lighting on the Cheap

There is no doubt about it that collecting an arsenal of studio lighting is a very costly adventure. But, who’s to say you can’t get professional results using light strips that you have built yourself? As Joe Edelman outlines in his two part video series, even those with no carpentry skills can whip up some […]

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Beauty Lighting for Soft Portrait Photography

Beauty Lighting for Soft Portrait Photography

Using lights to soften the skin of a subject is well practiced technique by many professionals. Getting the lighting right is not a complicated task and can save you precious time in post by eliminating the need for some common retouching practices. Good beauty lighting can be achieved using many combinations of studio lights and boxes, so […]

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Essential Lighting Tips For Wedding Photography

Essential Lighting Tips For Wedding Photography

Wedding photography requires a few skills in making your prints appear professional. One section of making a photograph professional is lighting. Lighting in wedding photography is paramount in creating fantastic images. Taking photos of subjects not well lit will not turn out the way you would wish for. We have listed some great strategies below […]

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Basic Lighting Setup for Fashion Photography on a White Background

Basic Lighting Setup for Fashion Photography on a White Background

Whoever says fashion photography photoshoots have to use extensive amounts of lighting equipment may want to take a look at the following video. While photographing model, Ulorin Vex, in his New York studio, professional photographer, Neil van Niekerk, kept things simple using just a backdrop and a beauty dish for a majority of the shoot. Go […]

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Photographing Sharks with Underwater Studio Lighting

Photographing Sharks with Underwater Studio Lighting

Last Call with Carson Daly did a feature recently on prolific Hollywood photographer Michael Muller, whose recent work has his portraits looking a little bit more savage. In this clip, he takes us underwater to swim with the fishes, where he’s started on a very exhilarating project: Muller muses about his art, and how he’s […]

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The Importance of Lighting in Food Photography

The Importance of Lighting in Food Photography

One of the challenges in photography is making enough to keep eating. Eating is good, and when you’re in the business it’s important to stay current with the trends and be constantly adding new revenue streams to your portfolio. An area growing in popularity is food photography. People are fascinated by food; there are more and […]

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The Challenges of Lighting for Night Ice Climbing Photography

The Challenges of Lighting for Night Ice Climbing Photography

Photographing climbers can be tricky. Photographing with strobes on location can be tricky. Photographing at night can be tricky. But if neither one of those are challenging enough alone, try doing all three, at once. This is what photographer Ray Demski‘s latest project involves. And if it doesn’t sound hard enough all ready, he’s also […]

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