Photoshoot and Beyond
I have always had a love/hate relationship with ring flashes. On the one hand they can produce wonderfully edgy and striking portraits, whilst on the other images can also look harsh and unforgiving, not to mention the inconsistency in exposure. Howeve…
We had a chance to catch up with Dave Black at Photoshop World last month in Las Vegas. He sat with Photofocus’ Pamela Berry to go behind the scenes of 5 of his most recent commercial jobs, showing us how he set up and lit each image and got an amazing shot.
In this short video, Jared Platt shows how to freeze motion using high-speed sync with the Profoto B1 and B2 heads, which work with TTL flash systems on Canon and Nikon DSLRs. While he demos the Profoto kit, the same rules apply to smaller speedlight kits and other TTL monolights and flash heads. With purely manual […]
Editor’s Note: Don’t miss this week’s free event on when to jump from Lightroom to Photoshop. For some reason, people laugh at me when I make a picture with them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining: laughing makes a wonderful expression. My subjects crack a big smile, and usually also bend in half with the […]
Editor’s Note: Don’t miss this week’s free event on when to jump from Lightroom to Photoshop. For some reason, people laugh at me when I make a picture with them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining: laughing makes a wonderful expression. My subjects crack a big smile, and usually also bend in half with the […]
Here’s an old video from Phlearn in which Aaron Nace walks through a clamshell lighting setup. If you’ve never done clamshell lighting before, you’ll appreciate Aaron’s thorough walk-through of the how’s and why’s of setting up and using clamshell lighting. Keeping with the clamshell theme, below is another take on clamshell lighting from Matt Granger […]
B&H has the Cactus V6 wireless TTL speedlight transceiver for $54.95 (reg. $69.95) through Sept. 10. It is compatible with Canon, Nikon and Pentax TTL systems. A firmware upgrade allows for Panasonic and Olympus flashes as well. Check it out here at B&H Photo. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay. […]
Editor’s note: We’re proud to welcome Mike Kubeisy to the Photofocus team His work in Hollywood makes him one of the most viewed photographers alive Please leave a comment welcoming him Before engaging the enemy it was a low light situation, once the rifles burst it was only then that I […]
This week we catch up with two photographers to get a wealth of advice. First Robert Vanelli talks with fashion photographer Lindsay Adler about her career and advice to other photographers. Then Rich Harrington since down with panoramic photographer Ron Pepper for a free-wheeling discussion about gear, tech, and workflow. Get the show here or get it […]
In this video from Jay P. Morgan at The Slanted Lens, we learn how to make a great 4′ x 4′ reflector with a silver and a white side using an $8 sheet of foam insulation sheathing. [via ISO1200] Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay. RSSID#794326