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 :

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;

How to shoot outdoor with mobile light

For sure, I love shooting fashion outdoor with mobile light. This time I am using Profoto Mobile light system Pro7B with 1200w power...big smile:D. Pixel King trigger set with 1 transmitter and 2 receiver and again my precious Nikon D3 with 85mm F1,4.- I am ready to rock n roll.
My model wore Balinese Prada in modern couture design without the umbrella. I added the umbrella with intention to isolate my model.

How to setup 3 point lighting against the white background

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Shooting catalog with white background can be a pain in a** for some of us. (pardon me for my expression :D). We have to maintain the white background and at the same time the definition of the product. of course there are many ways to do it , but diagram below shows you the way I always setup my 3 point lighting technique when it comes to catalog session...:D

2 side lighting technique

I always use different style of lighting on my images. none of them were the same.
This time 2 side lighting technique. It was a lingerie session with Jenny as my model.
I am using my brand new Nikon D800E at that time with Nikkor lens 135mm F2 accompany by Falcon Eye 2 x 300w Studio Lighting set.

3 point lighting techniques

Keys or main, fill and back light are the basic thoughts of 3 point lighting techniques. I often use this techniques to create dimension of the subject. Of course there are many ways to setup/arrange/placing 3 point lighting techniques to create dimension, but for sure with this technique, you will see how powerful combination between lights and shadow.

Lighting Tutorial "SHEHAREZADE"

Sheherazade (a role figure in the story of 1001 Arabian Nights)

This Assignment was requested by Author and Founder, Owner and Senior Editor at Din Dragoste Pentru artăher Rumania Liliana Negoi
She approached me to make a cover of her new book that will be released at that time
I was honored and humbled that she was chosen me amongst many.

Lighting Tutorial "Christmas Time Is Near"

The art to use speed light is to balance the ambiance light with your speed light.  The most important thing here is, use your creativity. It was at Sunday afternoon couple weeks ago that my friend asked me to assist her with lighting for one of her project photography. This image was taken during the break time. I saw a beautiful vase with yellow flowers near the windows. Great afternoon light was shinning through the windows at that time. So I took the model's shoes and place them in front of the vase.

Lighting tutorial "Violet at the Forest"

for this session I really rely on the expression of  the model...stiff but yet feminine and elegance. but in the same time Arrogant. perhaps Imperious is more accurate word to describe.