THE LAWYER SHOOT This was a quite fun shoot because it was quite a challenge to figure out how to actually get it shot. So I got a job to photograph lawyers. We went through the style they wanted and we looked at some examples what we would like to achieve. We decided on a [...]
2 LIGHTS WITH GELS This time it was time to shoot a Pulp Fiction inspired shot. Haven’t really used gels that much before, but I felt like I wanted to try it out to get the same look as the original Pulp Fiction cover shot. I have only used gels on my speedlites before, not [...]
5 LIGHT SETUP As you might have noticed, I have been a bit bad at writing post the last month. There has been a lot going on lately, we are planning and fixing things for our son that should pop out in about a month, I have been working on a personal movie, there has [...]
BASIC INTERVIEW LIGHTING In the past years I have been shooting quite a lot of interviews, but still really liked this tutorial on how to build your lights for an interview. Great video once again by Still Motion. Basic Interview Lighting on vimeo
BUYING STUDIO FLASHES Why do I want to buy bigger flashes when I already have 3 Canons speedlites? For me there are 3 reasons. 1. Some times I need more power than my speedlites can give me. 2. I want consistent light, for example when i shoot 20 different people that I want shot in [...]
BUILDING YOUR OWN DIY LED MODIFIERS My brother got this idea that he wants to shoot Led lights, and he being an engineer, he built his own “DIY Led light circle go around thingy”. He bought a bunch of different led lights from some online shop in Asia, and then he bought a light stand [...]
CANON SPEEDLITING WITH MULTIPLE FLASHES Syl Arena just saved me so many hours of work. I have been trying to write a new article on how to use flashes a bit more in depth, I did write one article on how to get your flashes to work as external flashes. But working with small flashes [...]
ANOTHER 3 LIGHT SETUP Thought I would share another quite simple setup which which gives a bit more contrasts to your portraits, but still neutral enough to use this setup on almost any shoot. So I have a speedlite in a 60x60cm softbox on the right of the camera, one speedlite shooting through an umbrella [...]
INTRODUCTION TO STUDIO LIGHTING Here is a video tutorial on the basics on how you work with flashes in your studio and out in the field. Joey Quintero who is working at B&H is really good at explaining difficult things in quite a simple way. One thing that might be good to understand before watching [...]
1 Light – Business shots A while back I got a job to photograph the personnel of a company. We didn’t want to shoot normal business shots, we wanted them to be a bit more darker, more contrast… just more tougher that usual business shots. So I thought I would show you how easy it [...]
4 LIGHT SETUP A few days ago I rented a studio with my friend to try out some more “real” flash setups. So I thought I would show you a quite nice and simple setup with 4 lights. 4 light setup, Jani 4 light setup, selfportrait Setup: And huge octobox in to a Hensel flash [...]
LIGHT MODIFIERS – DO YOU NEED THEM? Light modifiers, do you need them and if so, what should you get? This is a question I have been wondering on for quite some time. When I have been googling something like “softbox vs. umbrella” then 80% of my hits has come in to discussions / fights [...]
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