The Profoto beauty dish is one of my favorite light shaping tools. I have used it many times as my main light for years but today I want to show how to use the beauty dish as a fill light. The two images shown are both created using the beauty [...]
A road trip can do wonders for refreshing your mind but a photo road trip can do wonders for refreshing your creative spirit. I just returned from a road trip to Lake Powell, Antelope Canyon and Sedona. For years I [...]
I have always been an advocate of using a light meter. Knowing that you have the right exposure is not enough for mastering light. You need to know where the light is falling on your subject and where it falls off. When shooting close [...]
Today one of my interns asked the mega millions questions. "Why do you need a light meter" and then, "how to you make a white background"? Her thought was she could just look at the histogram to make sure it was within the proper range, but then [...]
With today’s modern equipment in our hands, the question of what makes a perfect exposure still abounds and the answer remains the same in the digital age as it did in the film days. During my career, I always used hand held meters, but I have to [...]
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