
Lighting How To
If you’re wondering how to make artificial lighting look natural or want to learn how to set up strobes for a fashion shoot, we’ll explain all of that (and more) here.
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Feature Film “The Revenant” Was Shot Using Almost Entirely Natural Light

Budget Lighting: Fake a Beauty Dish Portrait With a Reflective Umbrella

How To: Light Portraits for Easier Retouching

How To: Stroboscopic Lighting For Portrait Photography

You Can Do It: Use Two Lights to Freeze Action

Software Workshop: What’s New in Adobe Lightroom 5?

How To: Experiment with Subtractive Lighting Using Glassware

Music Video Demonstrates How Light Direction Can Transform a Face

How To: Use Halo Lighting In Portrait Photography

Complex, Three-light Setup

Moderate, Two-light Setup

Simple, One-light Setup

Imitate the look of ambient light with strobes

How To: Mix Light Sources to Warm Up an Interior Photo

Lighting Wizard Greg Heisler Shares His Process and Inspiration For a Trippy Portrait Shoot

You Can Do It: Create Abstract Light Patterns In Photos Using LEDs

Watch This: Tweaking Light From Softboxes With Photographer Andrea Belluso

The Top 10 Photography Lighting Facts You Should Know

Software Workshop: How To Edit Video in Adobe Lightroom 4

Watch This: The Inverse Square Law Of Light Is Complicated, Important For Your Photography

How-To: An Introduction to Automatic Flash Modes

How to Fire Six Strobes From One Circuit

How To: DIY Light Reflector

How To: Five Professional Lighting Techniques

You Can Do It: Glare-Free Glass Photography Using Backlighting

How To: Use a Ring Light Adapter

How To: Light Like A Pro

3 Techniques To Add Eye-Catching Shadows

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Hot-Shoe Flash

How To: Use A Window For An Environmental Portrait

Photographer Ted Sabarese Tries To “Guess The Lighting”

Tips From a Pro: Balance Flash Output With a Setting Sun

Do it yourself: The $20 lighting kit
Top 5 Flash Accessories

Master Class: Liquid Light

Tips From a Pro: Use Ambient Light to Make Your Photos More Dramatic

Picture Doctor: 5 Ways to Lighten Up With Flash

Profoto Announces ProDaylight 200 & 400 Air Continuous Light Sources

How to Get Better Photos in Any Light

Peter Kolonia’s Lighting

How To Use A Second Flash

How To: Use Second-Curtain Sync

Four Light Portrait How To

How to Pimp Your Flash

Lighting: Two 4 One

How To: Build A DIY Softbox Grid Out Of Gaffer Tape
You Can Do It: Slasher Art

How To: Light an Outdoor Location with Strobes

How To: Shoot With Hard Light

How To: Light an Outdoor Scene with Classical Lighting

Quick Tip: Understanding ‘Flash Falloff’

How To: Use Remote Lighting to Add Depth

How To: Use Backlighting for More Dramatic Still Lifes

Tips From a Pro: Pre-Visualizing Your Lighting Setup

How To: Light Glass Using Subtractive Lighting

Off-camera Flash Photography for Any Skill-level

21 tips for better flash photography

An Introduction to Off-Camera Flash Photography

How To: Balance Indoor and Outdoor Lighting

How Jill Greenberg Does Lighting

Light your photos like a pro
