Bruce Gilden on Judging Photography
While I’ve only recently become acquainted with photographer Bruce Gilden, what I’ve seen has impressed me. If you haven’t heard of him, you’ll want to check him out. Gilden is a photographer who uses...
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Lighting Aesthetics
Today I’ll discuss some images I captured a few seconds apart, shot in exactly the same corner. One of these images was shot with flash, the other two with available light. None of these images are...
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Case Study: F8 + Walking back
I always say that the way I shoot and the resulting style depends on the couple in front of me. The couple in today’s case study is young and fashion oriented, therefore I shot with more of an...
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CASE STUDY – TTL Flash + CTO
This was an instant moment so I had to react quickly. I had a CTO (Color Temperature Orange) gel on my flash, which was attached to my camera via TTL sync cord and held slightly above camera right: I...
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Case study: the 2 minute studio
Today’s case study is actually from an impromptu photoshoot for a new collection, but it was done so fast and easily that the techniques can be applied to a wedding as well. ISO 400; f8.0; 1/200 sec at...
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Case Study: Dragging the shutter
I was lucky with this shot. It all happened within a second: 1/8 of a second, to be exact: ISO 2500; f5.6; 1/8 sec zoomed from 24mm This is one of those key moments where you have to be aware of what’s...
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Case Study: Leveraging time and resources
You might be surprised to learn there is only one flash with a CTO gel that illuminates both subjects here: The flash is coming from camera left, held on a monopod by my assistant, set to TTL and...
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Case Study: Mixing flash and ambient light / using multiple strobes
While this image is one of my more popular images, it is also great example of mixing external ambient light with your portable strobes. So today, I’m going to reveal how it was made: ISO 800; F8.0;...
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Case Study: Shadows and High Contrast
Today’s case study is a throw back to an earlier post I made on here about exposing for highlights. You can read that here. To create this image, I had the bride in the background in the sunlight and...
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Case Study: Casting shadows
Today’s case study is all about controlling the shadows we can cast on our subject by firing flash through objects. To illustrate that concept, my idea for this case study was to position my bride...
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