The recipe for balancing natural light with flash
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Balancing natural light with flash isn’t complicated — once you have the ingredients and know the recipe!
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Direct your light with this DIY snoot and grid
Erin Holmstead
What is a snoot? A snoot is just a funny name for a piece of equipment — generally a tube or similar object such as a conical, cylindrical or rectangular shape — that fits over a studio light or portable
Simulate golden hour haze with off-camera flash for a whimsical forest portrait
Jemma Pollari
If you like flexibility in when you shoot, but love golden hour lighting, then this setup could be a good one to add to your mental kit! In this walkthrough I’ll show you how I simulated a hazy golden hour
How I got the shot: Raspberry iced tea
Julie Powell
While you might all be feeling a little chilly in the Northern Hemisphere, down here in Australia we are sweltering in the Summer heat. Nothing quite beats an iced tea on a balmy summer evening. So I set about creating
Should you get a strobe or speedlight?
Julie Powell
This was a recent dilemma I faced. I currently have older Bowens strobes in the studio and while there is nothing actually wrong with them, the recycle time was too slow and I had found they were continually misfiring with
Crush your portraits with a snoot, the most underrated and underutilized light modifier
Darren Miles
I’ve been a professional photographer since 2005 and in that time I’ve tried a TON of different lighting modifiers. Umbrellas, soft boxes, scrims, translucent umbrellas, umbrellas with diffusion, octo boxes, light spheres, barn doors, flags … you name it. But
Godox AD200: Is it a strobe? Is it a speedlight?
Darren Miles
Every photographer needs a flash eventually. If you’re into portraits or real estate, then the Godox AD200 may be the best all around value in the marketplace today. First look With 200 watt seconds (Ws) of power built into its
Portrait Tips: OCF with one umbrella
Levi Sim
I recently said that if I were allowed only one light for the rest of my life I’d choose a huge white umbrella. But if you’re just getting started with off-camera flash, I highly recommend a small collapsible white shoot-through
Portrait Tips: Color contrast makes all the difference
Levi Sim
I made this portrait the other day at the Out of Oregon Photography Conference. I was teaching a class on portraiture, and I had a picture like this in my mind as soon as I found out Maygen would be
Portrait Tips: Light outside the box
Levi Sim
Making marketing pictures at schools is one of my favorites activities. There’s endless variety in subjects and every classroom offers unique challenges in lighting. Last week I was making pictures in Oregon for a longtime client, the schools foundation. They
Portrait Tips: Challenge conquers dread
Levi Sim
Dread: That’s the feeling that happens when you know you’re in over your head but you have to perform anyway. Dread started weighing on me and pulling my stomach into my shoes when I arrived for this photoshoot. I was
Godox V1 offers high speed and power in round flash head
Bryan Esler
For the past couple years, I’ve utilized the Nissin line of flashes — specifically the Di700A and i60A — for my on-camera flash photography. While these can also be used off-camera, as an event photographer my primary goal with flashes
Simulate golden hour haze with off-camera flash for a whimsical forest portrait
Jemma Pollari
If you like flexibility in when you shoot, but love golden hour lighting, then this setup could be a good one to add to your mental kit! In this walkthrough I’ll show you how I simulated a hazy golden hour
How I got the shot: Raspberry iced tea
Julie Powell
While you might all be feeling a little chilly in the Northern Hemisphere, down here in Australia we are sweltering in the Summer heat. Nothing quite beats an iced tea on a balmy summer evening. So I set about creating
Should you get a strobe or speedlight?
Julie Powell
This was a recent dilemma I faced. I currently have older Bowens strobes in the studio and while there is nothing actually wrong with them, the recycle time was too slow and I had found they were continually misfiring with
Crush your portraits with a snoot, the most underrated and underutilized light modifier
Darren Miles
I’ve been a professional photographer since 2005 and in that time I’ve tried a TON of different lighting modifiers. Umbrellas, soft boxes, scrims, translucent umbrellas, umbrellas with diffusion, octo boxes, light spheres, barn doors, flags … you name it. But
Godox AD200: Is it a strobe? Is it a speedlight?
Darren Miles
Every photographer needs a flash eventually. If you’re into portraits or real estate, then the Godox AD200 may be the best all around value in the marketplace today. First look With 200 watt seconds (Ws) of power built into its
Portrait Tips: OCF with one umbrella
Levi Sim
I recently said that if I were allowed only one light for the rest of my life I’d choose a huge white umbrella. But if you’re just getting started with off-camera flash, I highly recommend a small collapsible white shoot-through
Portrait Tips: Color contrast makes all the difference
Levi Sim
I made this portrait the other day at the Out of Oregon Photography Conference. I was teaching a class on portraiture, and I had a picture like this in my mind as soon as I found out Maygen would be
Portrait Tips: Light outside the box
Levi Sim
Making marketing pictures at schools is one of my favorites activities. There’s endless variety in subjects and every classroom offers unique challenges in lighting. Last week I was making pictures in Oregon for a longtime client, the schools foundation. They
Portrait Tips: Challenge conquers dread
Levi Sim
Dread: That’s the feeling that happens when you know you’re in over your head but you have to perform anyway. Dread started weighing on me and pulling my stomach into my shoes when I arrived for this photoshoot. I was
Godox V1 offers high speed and power in round flash head
Bryan Esler
For the past couple years, I’ve utilized the Nissin line of flashes — specifically the Di700A and i60A — for my on-camera flash photography. While these can also be used off-camera, as an event photographer my primary goal with flashes
Portrait Tips: Don’t fight the light
Levi Sim
If you give a boy a hammer, everything looks like a nail and he will pound it. If you give a photographer a flash, everything looks like it needs to be lit. That means that you’re doing the right job
Learn to photograph portraits with one light, with a free Viewbug membership
Photofocus Team
Sometimes you might not have a plethora of lights and other modifiers at your disposal. But you can still make great, impactful images using just one light source. Whether it be portraits, headshots or family photos, there are several different
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