Run & Gun Lighting Resource

A couple of my lighting diagrams are being featured on lightingdiagram.com right now. And for you strobe users out there, their site is a great, clean interface for making and sharing diagrams.

I recently had a photo student from Parsons email me. The final project in her class was to pick an image where she liked the lighting and try to figure out how it was lit and then recreate it. She did a pretty damn good job. The only difference was that she used two lights, one gelled blue, where I use one light with a blue reflector. You can see her portfolio at http://www.megantepper.com/

Behind the Scenes video of the Versace Man series.

Over the past two weeks I have photographed the same bottle of cologne a half a dozen different ways. You can see the whole series of images on my blog. I gave myself this self-assignment in order to sharpen my skills at product lighting and editing. The lighting diagrams, which were not in my blog posts, are included here. Happy shooting!

For this shoot, the main concern was capturing the LED light that was emitted. It was a very small amount of light, so you will notice that the speedlites were turned all the way down in order to capture the LED. Check out the BTS video of the shoot.

Lighting diagrams from my shoot with Dani Dikeman

Lessons like this one as well as 25 other lighting diagrams are available in my new e-book, RGLR, The Run & Gun Lighting Resource for $10. 

We have a book! $10 gets you a 100-page high res PDF, formatted for your smartphone or tablet. Get at it.

This is the lighting diagram for the Abby Zbikowski and the New Utility shoot. It was shot in a large warehouse with concrete floors and a grey wall. I used four Canon 430 speedlites. They were triggered with Radiopopper PX transceivers by the Canon ST-E2 master unit (I normally use these strobes for high speed sync use). There were all bare bulb, two of them placed directly on the floor and two on stands at head level. I shifted the WB to a cooler blue hue in post.

Read more at http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/26/use-perforated-hardboard-as-a-backdrop-for-epic-portraits-with-beams-of-light/#iw19Y14Ab2G0fJ3H.99