by Donald Giannatti | Aug 5, 2008 | LE News and Info
As we begin to start to find some ways to use our speedlights – or small hotshoe style strobes – for advantage, we need to learn all about them. (Welcome Strobist Readers… thanks David.) I’m not talking about the RTM stuff. Where to put the...
by Donald Giannatti | Jul 31, 2008 | LE News and Info
Unleash your Creativity with Small Strobes This begins our series on small strobes and location work. August will feature 4 large-scale articles on using speedlights in the field. Published on Monday of each week, they will include video, diagrams and assignments for...
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 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...
by Donald Giannatti | Jul 9, 2008 | LE News and Info
There are times when the light you have doesn’t match the light you want. The drama of moody skies are rendered useless if they are overexposed and the muddy, dark skin tones of heavily overcast days can make the most competent Photoshop Guru moan in agony. What...