We often think about pushing flash into the post-sunset sky. But just behind us, there is a cool mix of light happening from the east as night encroaches. Paying attention to that mix can serve you w...
I shoot a lot of individual artists for the Howard County Arts Council. But when Bassoonist Eddie Sanders (center, above) asked if we could instead shoot his military reed quintet, I jumped at the ch...
After Mondays OA post, several people asked via Twitter and comments about the three-way flash brackets. They are super-useful, small, light and cheap. Or not, if you mistakenly buy more capability t...
When I worked at The Sun, a lot of emphasis was put on always having multiple projects in the hopper. Self-generated projects are the lifeblood of any good paper, and they promote exploration and ser...
Like McNally says, if you want to make something more interesting, dont light all of it. To that end, I use grid spots a lot. In fact, probably just as often as I use umbrellas. My workhorse speedlig...
Several people asked about the C-stand (short for century stand) that I used on the Rosco OA posted on Monday. Long story short, after spending 2 months on the road with McNally and crew last year, I...
All photos ©Ryan Brenizer. Click on any pic for bigger. New York City-based wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer has so-perfected the art of stitched portraiture that the technique has become associate...
I try to be pretty open with this blog. Sometimes I get it right, and sometimes I screw up royally. A recent shoot I did for Rosco is a good example of both. Read more »
There are no AC plugs near Delicate Arch in Grand County, Utah, where Royce Bair made this night landscape shot. So all of his flashes needed to be battery-powered to illuminate the 20-meter tall for...
Having eaten at this restaurant often enough to put these guys kids through college, I recently photographed brothers Gianni (left) and Carlo Morra at one of their three local Italian trattorias. It ...
As a site that explores photography through the lens of lighting, Strobist is necessarily overweighted in technique. But technique as an end to itself is almost certainly doomed to yield boring, mean...
Photos ©Shimada Yohei By Irwin Wong -- Nara, Japan -based commercial photographer Shimada Yohei’s Workman series involves lit, cinematic portraits of everyday tradesmen at the local level. Today, a l...
Just a quickie today on the whys and whens of using a single, small shoot-thru shade to completely control contrast-killing glare when shooting into backlight. Read more »
One of my goals over the last year has been to push against the boundaries a little more, both creatively and technically. This portrait of mezzo soprano Alexandra Rodrick is a good example of that, ...
Heres the lighting layout from Part 1 of this shoot of mezzo soprano Alexandra Rodrick. The lighting diagram is overlaid on a satellite image of the neighborhood, because the fill light and accent li...
Whos the creepy bald dude with the soulless eyes staring out at you right now? Hes a computer rendering that I lit on the web-based Virtual Lighting Studio. Yeah, he may look a little like a mass mur...
Heres an idea that is so simple I am surprised it did not strike me sooner. Its one of several neat little design improvements in the new Einsteins, but it never occurred to me how cheap and easy it ...
First, a clarification. Thats not Diana above. Thats Robin Massie-Jean, a violist I photographed for the Howard County Arts Council. The Diana in this photo is the lens. And really you cant even call...
For the second time in a week, a Paul Buff mod that is so simple I wonder why I hadnt thought of it earlier. This one is via Houston-based photographer Stephen Hébert.This Home Depot version of the f...
©David DanielsAs I post this, we are entering into April Fools 2012 territory. Believe nothing you read on the web today. Personally, I love April Fools. So much so that I would never post one every ...
Youve already seen the post mortem and final pics from this years Gulf Photo Plus shootout. But now the official videotape version of Martin Prihoda and yours truly getting our butts kicked by Mr. He...
Michael Greccos Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait has been one of my favorite lighting books since it was released back in late 2006. That was far enough back to where publishers were not yet insist...
I acquired my first spill-kill reflectors by accident. There were two, included in a set of used Profoto Acutes I bought from a dentist. (One of them is pictured above, at left.)My first thought: The...
Canadian reader Eros Peterson tweets: I type in http://www.strobist.com from work, and I get forwarded to http://strobist.blogspot.ca(?) Office firewall blocks says its an XXX site!Alas, we are still...
Of all of the things that I have learned from McNally, I think this is the one has stuck with me the most: Cameras open doors to new experiences and friendships. Or as Joe likes to say, "Its not...
After reading the Lighting 101 post about lighting for glasses, Z9Girl asks:"What if I were photographing an older couple for their 50th wedding anniversary and they both wear glasses? Of course...
Some advice is as good as it is self-evident: Dont whittle towards yourself. Dont pee into the wind. Dont enter into a land war in Southeast Asia. And to that I can now add: never, ever go up against...
Two years ago I first photographed an outstanding young cellist named Caleb Vaughn-Jones. Caleb is exactly the type of person I partnered up with the Howard County Arts Council to meet, and I was ver...
…photographer Amber Gray shows us how to stop wasting so much time on retouching. All it takes is the right lighting gear. The Broncolor setup will set you back, oh, about twenty gees by the time you...
Photo © Syl ArenaIm on the road with spotty net (and also a Nikon guy, so theres that). But Syl Arena has been playing around with the just-announced Canon flash and radio transmitter. Heres the five...
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