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Bob Knill’s “Moody Style”
Photographer Bob Knill, Maryland. Bob Knill of Frederick, Maryland wanted a very dark, moody portrait. Using a main light consisting of a 5-in-one scrim (the inside of a 5-in-one reflector system) with a speedlight he created a very earthy, dark but sublime...
One Light Glamour
Photographer Alicia Bonaterre (Trinidad) For this shot, Alicia used a single strobe in a dish reflector from slightly to the left of her camera. The hard light provides a wonderful highlight on the models legs and sculpts her form well. Using a single hard light is...
Lighting Basics, Class One: Light and Exposure
WELCOME TO THE CLASS... ENJOY LEARNING. This is Lighting Basics... a way to get a fundamental instruction in the art and science of photography. It is geared toward beginners, and those who are mid level but have not had formal training of any kind. Please do all the...
Lighting Basics: The Introduction
It's February 1, 2014. This begins the "Year of Teaching" for me. I may or may not be doing any workshops, but I love to teach so here goes. What this year long series will be: A comprehensive look at what I call "Subject Centric Lighting" - the understanding that the...
And We Are Back
That medical issue took more out of me than I was willing to admit. But I am back - and so is Lighting Essentials... a new post every day. Lighting, gear, photography and fun... What's gonna be new? Watch and see. We will have a new photograph, complete with lighting...
Going Back to Go Forward: REBOOTING Lighting Essentials
As many of you know, I had a pretty rocky third quarter with some serious health issues. They took the wind out of my sails, so to speak, and I had limited energy to work on the things that I loved. Lighting Essentials is one of my favorite things, but I had to keep...
The “Help Me Pay My Docs Off” Sale… LOL
The "Help Me Pay My Docs Off" Sale As many of you know, I was hospitalized for a week in August for a severe blood clot, and a PE which resulted in a heck of a lot of clots in my lungs. I am on the mend, and things are getting back to normal... but I also have...
Impatient Patience
Impatient Patience...Keeping The Momentum While Learning the Ropes You know how you think about things around the edges, trying to formulate the thoughts into some kind of pattern that makes sense and can be challenged and won from various angles? You do? Cool, then...
What’s Wrong With Photography? Nothing… Its Photo Writers We Should Question
A review of an article written for F-Stoppers by Lee Morris. The Nikon DF Represents Everything Wrong With Photography Or does it? I have a bad distaste for the bullshit club. The elitists who sit on the sidelines telling others what 'should be' without getting in the...
Just How Easy Is It To Be a Photographer?
(Originally Published in "In The Frame" my weekly Sunday Dispatch. If you are not subscribed, there is a place to do it just to the right of this article.) I recently received an eamail that made my day. It promised me a six figure income in photography and with...
First Roadtrip: Flagstaff and Jerome
I have not had the chance to do much roadtripping lately. The docs wanted me to stay pretty close to home for a while, but heading up to Flagstaff is only a couple of hours - well within the four hour limit. I wanted to catch some fall foliage, something I have never...
Kyle Jones Shoots the Reno Rodeo
Project 52 Member Kyle Jones shot the rodeo in Reno recently. Kyle is a photographer of many interests and talents. He is working on building a book and getting out in the Reno market by the first of the year. This fun shoot is one of the stories he is working on for...
