LE News and Info - Sunday, August 31, 2008 22:38 - 4 Comments
September 08 Desktops from Lighting Essentials
We continue on with our free themes for your desktops. September is a strange month for me. I am getting tired of the heat here by then, and waiting for the cool nights to signal the end of the monsoon. However, we need the rain so I want the monsoon to continue for a while to bring that ever needed water.
I got to travel a lot recently and was in Seattle, Bermuda and San Francisco with little time in between. Because of that we are perpetually behind here. I have design and photography clients waiting for my time, and I want to keep the site up with two updates a week. There always seems to be something else for me to do, so there is no real free time these days.
So with the spirit of hurriedness and the desire for tranquility, I chose two images from Bermuda and a shot of Briana in the California desert to use for the desktops. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy making them.
Other Recent Articles
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- Bermuda Workshop: August 2008… What’s Happenin’
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Natural Light - Jul 12, 2008 11:03 - 1 Comment
Using the Sun for A Hairlight: Some Variations
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 ways to use it for a hair light or rim light.
You can use it in a natural light situation and with big strobes, with bounce and with speedlights. It is a constant light source and so it can be carefully controlled. Yes, those cloudy days when it goes in and out can be a pain, but mostly it is pretty easy to manage.
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Studio Lighting - Jul 15, 2008 8:39 - 5 Comments
Using Opposing Lights to Sculpt the Subject
Using two powerful opposing lights can create a lot of drama in your images and make the subject “pop.” It is more than a main and a fill, it is a second light source that comes from the opposite side of your main light with as much or nearly as much power as your main light. This can cause some very interesting ’sculpting’ to happen where the two light sources meet.
It can also be a challenge to make that area where they meet as attractive as possible. Use the sculpting power of that second light to show lines, curves, texture, shape, and shadow to advantage. Controlling that second light is our focus.
We can use a hard light or a modified light source, but the goal is not to ‘fill’ the shadow side, but to create a whole new light source. Let’s take a look at a couple of examples that show how using two lights can really add some interest to a portrait or beauty shot.
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Portable Lighting - Aug 27, 2008 8:55 - 5 Comments
On Location: Anatomy of a Shoot (with Video)
On location with speedlights, a model and a videographer. A warm, well, mostly warm December day and we are shooting in Tempe, Arizona. I will share the setups with you and also what I was thinking and working with here. Briana is the model, check out her Model Behavior column here. NOTE: this is part three of the speedlight series. Part one, Part two.
I will be using only speedlights and I am using them in many different ways: direct, feathered, bounced into umbrellas and shot through umbrellas. I love all kinds of light, and keeping it fast moving with the speedlights is also important to me. We wanted to get several shots on this day, and the light was moving pretty quickly.
Some of the images we are discussing in this post. Video at bottom of second page.
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