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Glamour Lighting Setups

Lower back? Low key lighting! - The little Low Key Tattoo

A lot of ex­cel­lent pho­tos ben­e­fit from con­cen­trat­ing most of the light on the one im­por­tant spot that the pho­to­g­ra­pher wants to bring across. Low key pho­tog­ra­phy is a good strat­e­gy for this type of com­po­si­tio ›
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On Location Photography

High fashion - low effort photography lighting

On lo­ca­tion pho­to shoots are exc­it­ing. Es­pe­cial­ly when the sub­ject is gla­m­our, fashion or nude. I ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

The lazy way to use CTO gels on your speedlights

It’s go­ing hap­pen ev­ery 2nd Thurs­day of the month over here at Smok­ingStrobes: You will get ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Glamour Lighting Setups: Vertical Sandwich

My dear gla­m­o­g­ra­phers, let's get en­light­ened - ev­ery first Thurs­day. From now on I'm go­ing to post a ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Hard lighting with off camera flash

Af­ter see­ing the Pret­ty Flash Kit post here on Smok­ingStrobes, some of our cousins have asked me vari­ous ques­tion ›

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Glamour Photography Tips

The Pretty Flash Kit makes all the light you’ll ever need

When start­ing flash pho­tog­ra­phy, should you buy a com­plete flash kit or should you rather buy one ›
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On Location Photography

DIY softbox lighting: Light enters the room... through the door

Are you one of the pho­to­g­ra­phers who love the soft and charm­ing light that a large soft­box throws ›
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On Location Photography

Speedlight Tricks and fun with the Phottix Atlas Wireless Flash Trigger

Once you take your speed­lights out for a walk and sho ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Make your Speedlights 100% Reliable for Flash Photography

It’s Thurs­day again so I’d like to share with you a lit­tle trea­sure that I dis­cov­ered this week. ›
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On Location Photography

Got no Strip Light? What would MacGyver do?

If I got the chance to shoot some awe­some bodys­capes but I don’t have a strip­light with me &nd ›
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On Location Photography

Speedlights Top-Down Make For A Dramatic Beauty Light

One of the rather dra­mat­ic beau­ty light­ing se­tups is the one where light comes soft but di­rect­ed rig ›
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On Location Photography

Shower Curtain Softbox for Bodyscapes Part 2

Would you like to give your bodys­capes the edge? With some deli­ni­a­tion light? This video is a lit­tle ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

How To Use A Shower Curtain As A Softbox For Bodyscape Photography

How many large, body sized soft­box­es do you usu­al­ly have with you, when you are on a trip in a for­ei ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

How To Setup Flexible Portrait Lighting

Last time while vis­it­ing Bei­jing, I no­ticed that a new mod­el joined our Chi­nese mod­elling on­line fo­rum. Her name ›
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