by Donald Giannatti | Aug 16, 2008 | LE News and Info
Two weekends in a row I have had workshops… three counting next weekend in San Francisco. Wow… that’s some serious travel… Seattle, Bermuda, San Francisco. Sheesh, extreme distances… Seattle was a blast, even though we had a small group....
by Donald Giannatti | Aug 7, 2008 | LE News and Info
In keeping with this months major tutorial on using speedlights to their maximum, I thought I would take apart a shot that Briana and I did in Florida during a terrific thunderstorm. We were hot and it was very humid, but we decided to make the best of the down time...
by Donald Giannatti | Jul 26, 2008 | LE News and Info
Let’s look at a way to create some interesting, and somewhat ‘ethereal’ light on location without taking 200 pounds of lighting gear with us. We are going to use two strobes to ‘sculpt’ the subject and a bit of careful angling to get the...
by Donald Giannatti | Jul 24, 2008 | LE News and Info
Photograph by Yolanda Pucinski One of the coolest things I think can happen is when I see some work from a workshop attendee that is really getting great. We can open eyes in a workshop, and teach some skills as well as some solid technique, but it is the student that...
by Donald Giannatti | Jul 12, 2008 | LE News and Info
The sun is a wonderful light source as we all know. It provides hard, direct light, diffused light, bounce light… heck, it’s an allover lighting machine. There are many ways to use the sun for main light and fill, but today we are going to look at a few...