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What kind of lighting equipment do you need for your photography? Read these guides to lights, reflectors, and other types of lighting equipment.
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  1. How to Shoot Pizza So It Looks Good Instead of Gross

    How to Shoot Pizza So It Looks Good Instead of Gross

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    It's often said that the best photographs evoke emotion. If this is the case, what could possibly make me more emotional than an image of a pizza that's been...

  2. Build Your Own DIY Ringflash

    Build Your Own DIY Ringflash

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Ringflash has a wonderful, unique look to it, whether they are macro or shoot-through portrait ringlights. You get a crisp, dimensional, almost hyper-real...

  3. How to Use Your Phottix Odin Radio Flash Triggers

    How to Use Your Phottix Odin Radio Flash Triggers

    Tutorial • Beginner

    The popularity of radio for flash triggering reached a new level when triggers offering more than the "normal" flash sync opened new doors of experimentation...

  4. Getting Started With Your New Monolight Kit

    Getting Started With Your New Monolight Kit

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Monolight is a fancy name for a common type of studio flash unit. If you're interested in taking your lighting work to the next level, monolights are where...

  5. How to Achieve Simple, Dramatic Portrait Lighting

    How to Achieve Simple, Dramatic Portrait Lighting

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    There are a million ways to light a portrait and the way you light it will convey something about your style and your subject. In this article, we'll focus...

  6. How to Photograph Jewelry

    How to Photograph Jewelry

    Tutorial • Beginner

    You might not be invited to shoot jewelry for Christie’s catalogs, but taking pictures of your own jewelry can be a of fun, and a lesson about the way light...

  7. How to Shoot Colored Light and Water

    How to Shoot Colored Light and Water

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    The challenge was simple: photograph colored light and water for an awesome shot. A good excuse to try something I had been thinking about for quite some...

  8. 10 Secrets for Better Flower Photography

    10 Secrets for Better Flower Photography

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Flower photography is probably the most explored area of amateur photography, but the results for many people are never in touch with what they saw. Today,...

  9. Building a DIY Fluorescent Lighting System

    Building a DIY Fluorescent Lighting System

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Using long light sources to create unique highlights has become extremely desirable. Long fluorescent tubes fit the bill perfectly. The idea was perfected by...

  10. Quick Tip: 8 Reflectors You Already Have in Your Home

    Quick Tip: 8 Reflectors You Already Have in Your Home

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Reflectors are the simplest way to soften, diffuse or redirect light. You may not think about it, but there are reflectors all around us, from the clouds in...

  11. How to Photograph Fabric and Clothes

    How to Photograph Fabric and Clothes

    Tutorial • Beginner

    From handmade knits to high end silks, fabrics are all around us. Today, we'll take a look at the techniques needed to photograph them. Your crafting friends...

  12. How to Use Your Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT

    How to Use Your Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT

    Tutorial • Beginner

    The introduction of radio for flash triggering in Canon starts with the Speedlite 600EX-RT, a flash that opens new horizons but also forces users to learn a...

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