If you have worked as a portrait photographer in a studio, especially in a home studio, you know how important your backdrops can be. Portrait backdrops are as varied as the photographers who use them.…
Whether you’re one of those fantastic photographers whose breadth of hobbies doesn’t end with your camera or if you’re a full-time photographer looking to make some money from home in a new niche, product photography…
Lighting and photography go hand in hand. Without light, we’d have no photos! However, light is not only important on a technical level, but also an artistic level. You may take the same shot multiple…
Elinchrom make great lighting and are constantly bringing out new and improved products. Their latest offering is the ELB 500 TTL kit, designed for use both on location and in the studio. I’ve been taking…
In photography, if you want to create a certain kind of mood, one of the things that you can do is use high and low key effects. These effects are important if your intention is…
When we think of backlighting, we usually associate it with shooting portraits outside directly into the sun, using it as a backlight to create a rim light around your subject. But this is an effect…
Studio lighting is an essential addition to most photographers’ arsenal. It allows us to create natural lighting effects in a variety of situations, and is far more controllable than a flashgun. And, with so many…
When you are starting out as a photographer, the world is your studio, but after a while you may get tired of having to fight the sun and weather. That's when you know it's time…
For many pro photographers, studio lights are an essential part of kit. As a portrait photographer, I can honestly say I’d never be without them. They allow you to control the light to a finite…
The birth of practical photography, generally accepted to be 1839 when Louis Daguerre developed the daguerreotype, forever changed the way we look at the world. Ever since those early days of capturing a moment in…
Fashion photographers are able to fulfil many different types of work, from photographing ads to taking portraits to shooting magazine covers. Many aspects of fashion photography are prevalent in many more photographic situations such as…
The principle behind studio lighting is easy to grasp but the application can take a lifetime to master. Getting a good portrait is more than setting up the lights, but without the right lighting you’ll…