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 »
DIGITIAL PhotoPro – Review about set.a.light 3D
Automate Your Lighting Plans With A Unique APP! “set.a.light 3D Studio lets you plan and document complex lighting solutions with the click of a button.” set.a.light 3D allows photographers to auditon and document any number of lighting scenarios. Preparation, or lack of planning, can make or break a photo shoot. Fortunately, there are software applications to assist in production planning ... Read More »
The Mother of all Lighting Setups – the Rembrandt Light
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 »
Chapter 6: Lighting Design the Easy Way – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light
Improve Your Photography Skills – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light Revealed In this blog post, I would like to share some insights with you regarding the connection of aperture and inverse-square law of light as well as their effects on light fall-off. Let me ease you into this topic by explaining the aperture first. Aperture Stops (f-Stops) Switching ... Read More »
Effective Portrait Lighting Setup with 4 Flash Heads – How to Read Images the Right Way
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 »
ONE-LIGHT-SETUPS / Black-White
>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 »
Chapter 5: The use of light
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 »
Chapter 4: Just before your camera goes ‘click”
You should always have a plan in mind before you’d take your expensive camera and widely start shooting. How would you like your desired picture to look like? A good plan is more than half the battle and as well kepps you from having hundreds of unused pictures on your SD card or computer. Strt working more effectively! The ... Read More »
Quick Tips for set.a.light 3D – short and easy!
Here you’ll find a collection of very short videos containing helpful tips for your use of set.a.light 3D. Each video features only one or two functions and explains them shortly and to the point. The videos should help you operate set.a.light 3D even better and more effectively. In addition you might find some features that are new to you. Quick Tip: ... Read More »
Chapter 3: Light formers / types of light / lighting design
Types of light: Soft light: Soft light, indirect light or also known as diffuse light, is produced through extensive light sources. We know diffuse light from nature, for example sunshine falling through a cloudy sky. A great characteristc of it is its uniform illumination and its minimization of shadows. Their contours are blurry and very soft. In studio photography you ... Read More »