Flash vs Sun

Urban Beauty by Antoine Dagobert

This time, let me share with you how to shoot outdoor in bright sun light and under the blue sky.
The important thing here is  how to minimize the shadow and how to put the shadow that causing by the sun in right place. Good analyze and be smart with choosing your camera angle in order to maximize the benefit of the great sunlight are very important.

Creative Artistic Lighting Technique

Creativity is the greatest tools in all lighting technique. It is require, you must use it and you must have it, in order to expand your ability and sense of art in lighting. Creative lighting existed already long time ago, from the era of great painters up till today.

3 Point Lighitng Technique For Interior Shot

3 point lighting technique can be useful for your interior shot. And "Yes", of course we can use 3 point lighting technique for interior shot too. Let's see the diagram below :

My experience with Nikon D810

I was a so disappointed on Nikon latest series D800/D800E. I bought my D800E before Christmas 2013. I have a huge expectation on D800E for supporting my Billboard Advertorial Job. With 36 meg.pix I thought nothing can go wrong. Especially when we looking to Medium Format Camera Prices, D800E will give a BONUS in my market price. Any way it turned out not as I expected, It did not happen.

How to create a stunning portrait with one light

Today I am going to share with you how to create a stunning portrait with one light only.
This technique will add more drama in to the image. You can use either studio lighting or speed light, but the most important thing is “how you do it.” Think wide open when you are in location shoot. Look around and analyze the area. And try to combine the benefit of the room with your lighting setup. Make sure that you use light stand, trigger and modifiers such as soft box/soft box grid, umbrella (white/black).

How to use 3 point lighting technique in small room

I used 3 Lighting Point Technique in this shot. One Tronic Alpha 1000w with Octagonal Soft Box and 2 Nikon SB900 speed light. One hidden in the sink and the other one hiding in the compartment up behind the model, both of them using a standard diffuser. You can see the compartment right on the mirror. This setup a bit tricky, what you need to do is;