Diagramming Tool - Written by wizwow on Monday, February 2, 2009 13:44 - 19 Comments

Lighting Diagram Tool for Lighting Essentials

Here is a great little tool my friend and fellow Flickrite created with some of my icons. Bookmark this page and use it whenever you need a lighting diagram.

This is a great little tool for designing lighting diagrams and sharing them with anyone you want. Built with some of my icons, the tool renders lighting diagrams and saves them out for you as JPEGS. Pretty sweet.

Be sure to bookmark the page and reach in to create diagrams of your lighting schemes.

Workshop news:
We are working on getting an advanced class in late February and mid-March. These advanced classes are limited to three photographers. We shoot all day, on location and in the studio. Our models and MUA’s work with us to create totally unique images. This is a very hands-on workshop and it limited to three photographers. Saturday is shooting, Sunday morning is review, edit, and post work.

We will be working with large lights and small lights alike, as well as natural and augmented natural light. This is really going to be a rocking workshop. NOTE: This is not a workshop for beginning photographers, and a portfolio is required for admittance.

More details to follow on the advanced classes.

We are next to San Diego for an exciting Lighting Essentials workshop. Take a look a the workshop page for more information on upcoming workshops.

Now, on to the LE Lighting Diagram Tool.

This cool tool created by: NGUYEN DINH Quoc-Huy – visit his site. You will find a link at the bottom of the diagram tool.

Simply choose the tool you need, rotate it to create the lighting scheme you want to share and save it as a jpeg.

Remember to bookmark the page and take a moment to signup for our RSS Feed. We have lots going on, so you want to be kept in the loop, right?

19 Comments

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Nick Masters
Feb 2, 2009 18:52

Love it, thanks!

Chuck
Feb 3, 2009 5:00

Great tool Don.

Clint Smith
Feb 3, 2009 20:51

this is awesome…been looking for something that will allow my students to prevision their setups!

Murtaza
Feb 4, 2009 0:19

psst. theres a ‘C’ missing in the word ‘object’
“Select an image set and objet to add”
I love your website and read every story posted but I never commented mainly because I was always out of words and a complete amateur in photography

Hampshire Wedding photographer
Feb 6, 2009 7:44

Very useful tool for keeping track of lighting setups. Link the setup jpeg to the image file and you will always have a handy reference.

onesickpuppy
Feb 15, 2009 1:01

Is it me or is anyone else not getting this to work for them………..

I choose background, then I select backdrop, but as soon as I select it, it pops back to
select an item and nothing shows in the box.

??????

wizwow
Feb 15, 2009 7:57

Hi Nick,
Contact QH and tell him what browser and what the issue is.

It is working on mine: FF, Safari PC / FF. Safari Mac.

Hope you can get it to work for you.

–don

Scott
Feb 18, 2009 4:49

No gobos!

Mark
Feb 19, 2009 4:32

Great tool for my students. Thank you very much. Great effort

Ajani Truth
Mar 22, 2009 15:26

This is amazing. This is what I REALLY needed. Going to use this during my next lighting test session this weekend. Thanks. I will pass it on.

Fotografi
Mar 31, 2009 11:51

A tool of great utility. thanks really for sharing.

André Weigel
Sep 5, 2009 8:46

Pretty cool… !

andres
Jan 20, 2010 16:28

to create a user new account , the web page dosent work..!!!????
anybody can say me what can i do..????

thanks.

Carl Eggers
Feb 15, 2010 8:07

Can you provide better simple step by step instructions for using your diagram tool. I am 69 years old and do not understand very well how to use this computer. Thank you. Carl Eggers

wizwow
Feb 15, 2010 8:20

Hi Carl.
Just choose the lighting tool you want to diagram with, drag it into position and click. You can click it again and rotate it or move it again. That’s it, really. Keep choosing the ones you want till you have the diagram where you want it, and then save it as a jpeg for your files.

Dick Adams
Mar 2, 2010 7:35

Super teaching tool. Should be useful in helping understand short and broad lighting, key and fill light, etc. Thanks!

Elizabeth
Apr 6, 2010 17:18

Holy cow this is so helpful! I was trying to draw this by hand for my shoot this weekend with a model. Awesome. Thanks for sharing it.

Johnathan
Jul 14, 2010 7:01

There’s also an App for the iPhone that does this I think it’s called Strobox

Guess the Lighting
Aug 17, 2010 8:57

Very cool tool. Thanks. If you’re interested in how famous photogs light their images, check out:

GuessTheLighting.com