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Tutorial: Shooting the Army, part 2
Tutorial: Shooting the Army, part 2
When we’re able to do it, we will produce another video of this shoot, showing how it was done. Meanwhile, let’s get on with the tutorial…
Part 1 of this tutorial covered the early, static shots, designed to show off the new sponsored Rugby Strip and Rugby Ball for the 2016 season. Jamie then did some shots using our fog machine.…
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Tutorial: Getting a pure white background in a small studio space
Tutorial: Getting a pure white background in a small studio space
A lot of people struggle to get good results when they create pure white background shots (which some people call high key shots) in a small studio space, and the poor quality of many of the photos gives white background shots a bad name – but, with care, and with a bit of help from the computer, it is possible to do it well even in small spaces.
The reason why so many professionals choose to…
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Tutorial: Building up the light
Tutorial: Building up the light
This tutorial is about my basic approach to lighting,which never changes regardless of subject – it doesn’t matter whether the subject is a beautiful girl, a product, an ugly old man like me or, as we did in this shoot, a motorbike. The approach must always be the same. In my experience, the only people who do it differently (who use…
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Creating a Simple Portrait
Creating a Simple Portrait
Creating dynamic portraits with only two lights
The accent light is a Lencarta SmartFlash 200Ws head, firing at ¼ output through a 60×60 softbox frame left, and just beyond the distance of the subject. It needed to be at a ¼ output due to the distance between the light head and the subject being greater than the usual “just outside the frame”, to reduce any chance of flare from the softbox.
It…
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Softbox or umbrella?
This is a question that people ask all the time, so we thought it might be helpful to explain the advantages/disadvantages of each…
The light should be adjusted so that it doesn’t quite go to the edge
Both softboxes and umbrellas are available in a range of different designs and sizes, and softboxes are also available in a range of different shapes, so to keep it simple, we’re going to compare a
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Tutorial: Lighting effects and gels
Tutorial: Lighting effects and gels
We started this mini series with Chiaroscuro lighting, then added a second light on our subject, which gave us crosslighting. Now we’re moving on to other effects.
Let’s get creative with the background lighting…
With no light on background
Our background here is grey, because grey gives us the most options – it’s possible but…
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Tutorial: Chiaroscuro Lighting
Chiaroscuro (from the Italian for light and dark) is a simple but very effective lighting approach that has been used by painters for centuries. It creates the closest thing we can get to a 3-D image in a 2 -D medium, and of course it can also be combined with other lighting techniques and with selective focus.
Basically, it just…
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Tutorial: Black on Black, part 2
Tutorial: Black on Black, part 2
Part 1 of this tutorial was about photographing this shiny black flash head t’other way round, showing the sharp end, complete with reflector.
Here in part 2, we’ve turned it around to show the control panel at the rear, there’s no point in repeating the lighting of the body of the flash head, which is identical, but please be sure…
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