Advice and Insight Around Cinematic & Dramatic Lighting from August Bradley
August Bradley creates distinctive portraits, conceptual images, TV commercials and short films with an artistic feel and a sense...
Product Review: Fiilex P360 and P180E Full-Spectrum Color LED Studio Lights
Designed for portability for the independent videographer shooting interviews, quick setup talking head studio shots or even portable green...
Flash: the Future is in Radio
Multiple eastern companies compete for the new market that flashes with radio trigger appear to offer. After an initial...
Phottix Mitros: Cheap TTL for the Masses
When I decided to get a new flash for my Canon system, the option of the new Mitros from...
LIGHTING: One Exposure Formula to Rule Them All
This industry is full of little tricks that, when properly employed, can make us all look like inhumanly fast...
LIGHTING: Advanced Cucoloris Use Illustrated by a Solar Eclipse
I love stacking cucolorii (plural of “cucoloris”) and I thought it was time to write an article about how...
LIGHTING STRATEGIES: Rough Guide to Illuminating a Bounce Card
Is bounce light really just about aiming a light at a white card and walking away? No. There are...
LIGHTING STRATEGIES: Exploiting a Single Light Source
There are few things more elegant than lighting a shot with a single light source. It doesn’t always work,...
LIGHTING STRATEGIES: Placing the Fill Light for Faces
In this article I wrote about classical key light placement and classical portraiture to illustrate how artists and cinematographers...
