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  1. Build Your Own DIY V-Flat Light Modifiers

    Build Your Own DIY V-Flat Light Modifiers

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    V-flats are a staple of studio setups and have a wide array of uses, but the "real" flats they're usually made up of are a type of foamboard for display...

  2. Shooting a Sunset Wedding on a Hot Air Balloon

    Shooting a Sunset Wedding on a Hot Air Balloon

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    As a wedding photographer, you only have one chance for every moment. We all have to handle curveballs on the big day from the florist running late to the...

  3. How to Use the Gary Fong Lightsphere

    How to Use the Gary Fong Lightsphere

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Getting nice, flattering light quickly is a huge challenge to wedding and event photographers. For years a bounce card or a small Stofen diffuser was pretty...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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,...

  12. 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...

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