Posts Tagged ‘lighting’

adventures in softboxing: sunshine and daisies

adventures in softboxing: sunshine and daisies

Featuring:

- off-camera flash lighting with a softbox

- experiments with white balance and gelling

- daisies through a wide angle lens

- hints and tips and where I went wrong


hitting the street with the lumiquest softbox III

hitting the street with the lumiquest softbox III

I got a LumiQuest Softbox III last week and wanted to put it to use straight away. Its main appeal to me is as a close in soft lighting source for portraits, useable handheld if necessary with no real awkwardness. I could use it at events to get awesome off-camera lit portraits anywhere, worlds away [...]


doctor strobist (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the light)

doctor strobist (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the light)

I first picked up a DSLR (or indeed any SLR) in 2005 when I bought my Nikon D70, and for the next 3 years flash lighting scared me witless. In a medium where light is everything, being unwilling and unable to get a grip on how to light with flash was sort of an embarrassment, [...]