by Donald Giannatti | Apr 2, 2008 | LE News and Info
Getting really nice, soft light on location can be a challenge. Too often photographers use their naked flashes for fill and end up with something more harsh than they expected. Using a flash to fill in ambient light can be far more subtle and rewarding. For this shot...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 31, 2008 | LE News and Info
March was a tough month for us as we moved the site from a traditional web site to a WordPress backend. We are starting to feel pretty good about it. It meant a loss of visitors for a few days and we lost our statistics for 4 days, but it is obvious we have reached...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 26, 2008 | LE News and Info
One of my clients is a wig importer for Irish Step Dancers. There’s a niche for you. I shoot a couple of times a year for her. In this case we are shooting some styles she wanted to update before setting up her online store (another of my projects…) and we...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 25, 2008 | LE News and Info
Our last shot in the hat series. This was a shot that used one light for a background and the other for a dramatic front light. The two lights we used in this set are a Norman Beauty Dish and a silver/white Zebra umbrella. The beauty dish was used as a background. I...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 21, 2008 | LE News and Info
Asked to shoot 40 non-models at an upscale salon was quite a challenge. I needed a light that would serve many different faces and body types. I would literally have only a few minutes with each and they would be nervous so working the light in many different ways was...