Well, that’s a great present that came in shortly before christmas! We’ve got 8 new lighting setups for you – try them out, play around with them and shoot many great pictures and photos using them! The download is located down below at the end of the article. Minimalistic use with only one light is the easisest way to set up these ... Read More »
A great example on how to easily experiment around and learn with set.a.light 3D! This week I had a session with a part time model from Gibraltar and while presenting my thoughts for the shoot, I asked her what she would like to do. She came up with the idea of a coloured portrait and sent me the well known ... Read More »
What’s the special thing about composing? Well, you’ll be able to create pictures that won’t occur like that in nature or wouldn’t be feasible otherwise. You can step up the game by unleashing all of your creativity on your work and express yourself just as you like – there are no limits. If you want to create a composing and ... Read More »
How to conjure a simple and sensual Glamour Biniki Shooting in only 5 to 10 minutes? In his video Joe Edelman shows you how to create a lighting setup using only 3–5 flash heads. To create a little twist he’s using orange coloured films and shows you how to use them. Afterwards he shows you how to realize the lighting ... Read More »
Naming: Let’s take a quick excursion into the past right at the beginning and see why the Rembrandt Light is called Rembrandt Light. :-) The artist and painter Rembrandt (whose full name actually was “Rembrandt van Rijn”) used a certain lighting style (portrait lighting) for many of his famous paintings and graphics. For many years, Rembrandt intensively studied the effects ... Read More »
You can quickly find a pretty photo on the internet – but how did the lighting setup look like? Let’s take a closer look at a portrait together and think about how we can trace back to the matching lighting setup from here. Meaning, we want to detect the lighting set by reading the finished image and find out how ... Read More »
>HERE< you can download a file with eight one-light-septups for set.a.light 3D! Note: Your browser (Internet Explorer) may change the file name ending from .set to .zip after downloading. To solve this, please change the ending from .zip to .set after downloading. Even if you have no license, you can open the file and view the Settings! How to do this, ... Read More »
More light sources do NOT automatically mean a better photo. That’s why you’re able to capture great pictures with only one flash head. It’s more of a matter with the general lighting and the right moment. Main question of lighting: What’s the later use of this picture? Application photo: If you’d like to shoot a picture for an application, you ... Read More »
A beauty dish is a large, bowl-like reflective circular dish which ranges anywhere from 16 to 30 inches in diameter and is mostly used when shooting portraits and glam-style imagery. “FAST GLAM” Photo Shot feat. Melisa Mendini Creating a generally softer light is one of the functions of a beauty dish. Its coated interior which reduces basic highlights is what causes the ... Read More »
In this video, we show you how you can backtrack and re-establish an original lighting setup on basis of a finished image: Vom fertigen Bild rückwärts zum Lichtsetting - set.a.light 3D | DEWatch this video on YouTube- Mit Klick auf das Video, wird eine Verbindung zu Youtube aufgebaut, es gelten damit die Datenschutzbestimmungen von Youtube. - The first step is ... Read More »
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