Category: light blaster

How dog toys and toilet paper can improve your portrait photography

John Aldred

Coming up with new and interesting ways to improve your portraits in the studio can sometimes be challenging. You feel like you’re just going through the motions session after session. Photographer, Joe Edelman, recently posted a video about the Light Blaster and how it can help you get more creative in the studio, to project […]

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Projection tricks to make the most out of a small studio

John Aldred

The Light Blaster has become one of my favourite lighting tools over the last few months. I first got to play with one in person at The Photography Show in March. Some of you might remember the cartoon portrait tutorial by Dracorubio posted here shortly afterwards. The image shown in that tutorial was shot at the show, with […]

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This living room shoot shows the importance of back light for making a scene real

Udi Tirosh

I love a good living room studio. Not everyone can afford a full fledged studio and for many, the photography room living room is the only option. Probably not to the delight of the significant other. Manny Ortiz (previously) shows a clever way to make the living room look bigger using a portable seamless black […]

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Creating stylish cinematic portraits with the Light Blaster

Clinton lofthouse

I recently got my hands on a Light blaster. The Light Blaster Is a strobe-based image projector. Basically it’s a slide projector. You can select and project still images onto any physical space. They claim “unlimited possibilities for creative freedom“, so I thought I’d take it for a spin.  It is seriously one cool piece of kit […]

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How I shot a photo of an octopus hogging an action figure – A lighting breakdown

Carlo Orlandi

With the heat of August, I thought that nothing will beat making a small beach set photo in the chill studio. In this product shot, I am going to use three lights to simulate outdoor sunlight for a small scale product octopus attack shot. I am going to use a Miggo Splat , a small […]

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This 3D printed Bat-Signal is a DIY Light Blaster for your smartphone

Gannon Burgett

If you frequent DIY Photography, you’ll know we’re big fans of the Light Blaster, a speedlight accessory that allows you to cast shapes and designs onto a subject or background. Today, we have for you a fun DIY project that does essentially the same thing, except for your smartphone’s camera flash. Created by Dalek, this […]

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Spiffy Gear Light Blaster Giveaway! ($355 Retail Value)

Udi Tirosh

If you ever had an entire shoot returned to you by a graphic department for “those are not the colors of our products”, you know that a calibrated monitor can really ease things for you. This is why we teamed up with Spiffy Gear to give away a Complete Light Blaster Set ($355 Retail Value) (we will […]

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