SLC-1L-12: A Garden of Ideas

At first glance: a simple, one-light portrait of activist gardener Janssen Evelyn. Dig deeper: a look at tonal mapping via specular high...

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SLC-2L-14: Fill in the Blanks

There are two main schools of thought when it comes to lighting. One is to light your subject in a way that is not grounded in reality b...

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SLC-2L-13: Shoot Through Your Sunset

Whenever you have control over the time of day in which you'll be shooting a location portrait, always remember that the hour that wra...

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SLC-1L-11: Planting Rice at Sunrise

Seeing as no one is doing much traveling these days, I thought it'd be fun to pay a visit with a Strobist reader photographing somewhe...

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SLC-2L-12: Two-Light Bike for the Bucks

Have you tried to buy a new bike lately? Or even a used bike? The coronavirus pandemic has made them very tough to find. Between homebou...

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SLC-2L-11: The "Magic" of Medium Format

There's something about shooting medium format — especially in black and white. The look is unmistakeable: creamy highlights supported...

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SLC-1L-10: [COVID DIARIES] Shoot the Kids

Hey, there's a pandemic. Have you heard? Looks like we might be spending a lot of time in the house with our immediate family these...

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Hot-Shoe Go-To: The Godox TT600

How best to put this? The Godox TT600 is, objectively, a screaming bargain. It is a full-sized manual-only speedlight with power compara...

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X-Peditions' 2020 Trips Announcement

Just a quick note to announce that X-Peditions' 2020 season has opened. Seats are going very quickly, and we expect both trips to fill...

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In Appreciation: The LumoPro LP180 [2013-2020]

The LumoPro LP180 is no more. You could make a strong case that the LP180 was the best manual hot shoe flash ever produced — and maybe t...

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SLC-0L-04: Red State, Blue State

To learn to create evocative light with flash, it helps to better understand how we experience the continuous light we see every day. To...

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SLC-0L-03: Joker Cinematographer On Light & Color

Watching the movie Joker , I felt repeatedly that I was watching a film that Greg Heisler could have lit. The use of color was unique, sop...

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SLC-2L-10: Left Brain / Right Brain

Photos by Sara Lando and David Hobby except where noted. Just as most of us are either right- or left-handed, it is said that we all have ...

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Lighting Workshop Interest List

Apologies for how the lighting workshops announcement went yesterday. They filled within a few hours, and before many of you even saw the em...

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Announcing (2) Small-Class Lighting Workshops Baltimore / Washington, DC Area, Dec. 6 and 7

I'll be teaching two, full-day lighting workshops in the suburban Baltimore/DC area on December 6 and 7. They are two separate one-d...

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SLC-2L-09: Google Maps as a Visa | BTS 360

Today in Lighting Cookbook, using Google Maps as an entré to meet new subjects, and improvising with a skeleton pack of lighting equipment...

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SLC-2L-08: Mexican Sodas | BTS 360

You do something long enough, you'll eventually learn the little things you can do to help interesting stuff happen. One thing I have ...

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SLC-1L-09: Compressing Tonal Range With Specular Highlights

White marble, dark chocolate, one light source. Problem? Not at all. Because pretty much everything you can actually see across the top ...

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SLC-2L-07: Journalist Hope Kahn

Hope Kahn is a Maryland-based journalist who is doing all of the sorts of things I was doing at her age: honing her writing and reporting ...

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Teaching at Porto Photo Fest this October

Just a quick heads-up for anyone based in Europe that I'll be teaching several classes at the Porto Photo Fest on October 12-13 this f...

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