lighting techniques with one light Back in the Sept. 2013 issue, I explained how to create high key studio lighting that produces magazine-cover results. The setup involved three individual lighting zones...

Many considerations come into play with group portraits: posing, wardrobe and the right camera angle among them. But lighting adds an additional layer of...

If you don’t know your past, you can’t know your future. That’s why research is my first task after I’m hired to shoot a commercial job. Once briefed by the client on expectations, needs, usage, concept, etc.,

Here, I’m using two small square grids mounted on two 2-foot-square softboxes. These are positioned to the left and right and behind the subject, who is in the middle.

Recently I had the pleasure of being the first photographer in the United States to field test Profoto’s B1 Air 500 TTL Off-Camera Flash. One of the images from that shoot, taken on location in the historic Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, has garnered a lot of questions...

If you love light as much as I do, then the classic Hollywood glamour portraits of the 1930s and 40s are probably already on your radar. This month’s article is all about re- creating that classic vintage...

All photographers draw inspiration from one another. I first came across the lighting technique featured in this month’s article—mixing strobe and constant light—after seeing some of photographer/retoucher Julia Kuzmenko’s images. I was immediately inspired to try it out myself.

This month I look at beauty lighting and white backgrounds, two of my favorite studio lighting techniques. The concepts used to create this setup are a great foundation for just about every other studio lighting scenario you’ll run into.

In this series, I’ll explore the creative possibilities of using only one light and a little creativity. In addition to showing what you can do with one light...

Whether you’ve got one strobe flash in your bag or three, backlighting can be your ally on location. It can be used and created in a number of ways, including as an additional light...