Simple Corporate Portraits: A Lighting Tutorial

September 28, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

This is a simple look at how to shoot basic corporate portraits. When you take a job on to shoot an office full of people where doyou start?

Making Smoke Lay on Water: A Lighting Tutorial

September 14, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

In this lesson we look at how to make smoke lay on the water. It’s a very cool effect that is created by pumping smoke through a chill box.

Shooting An Event: A Photography & Video Lighting Tutorial

September 4, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Shooting events can be very hard and in this lesson I will share some lighting insights that will make it a bit easer.

Using Continuous Light and Strobes Together: A Lighting Tutorial!

August 16, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today we are going to look at using strobes and a continuous light source together on set to create an interesting portrait. We want to take some wonderful images of Rebecca Grant on a small set representing a back stage make-up area.

How Lens Focal Length Shapes the Face & Controls Perspective: A Lighting Tutorial

August 6, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

The lens or focal length of the lens you choose has a profound impact on the image. It effects the perspective, background and features of the subject.

Shooting Zombies Through a Car: A Photography & Video Lighting Tutorial

July 18, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Camera movement is one of the most exciting, time consuming, and difficult aspects of working in video. See how we light this zombie shoot.

Understanding Ring Lights / Ring Flashes: A Photography Lighting Tutorial

June 30, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

A great lighting tool is the Ring Light or Ring Flash. The Ring Light was invented in the 1950’s as a light source to capture medical images.

Creating Fire: A Special Effects Lighting Tutorial

June 16, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

I shot a commercial for Los Gringos Loco on the Red using one of my favorite special effects…Fire! In this back yard barbecue we see everything go up in flames.

Octodomes Ping Pong and Fire at the beach: A Lighting Tutorial

May 31, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

This lighting tutorial was shot at a Malibu beach location and the information that we learned about Octodomes lighting in our last lesson.

Understanding Octodomes/Octo Boxes: A Lighting Tutorial

May 11, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

In this Slanted Lens lesson we are going to take an in-depth look at 8 sided soft boxes or Octodomes. Each manufacturer has its own name; Octobox, OctaBox, Octa Softbox, Octa Bank, or Octodomes.

Instagram

Instagram Feed