lighting challenge

Despite the limited participation in the earlier lighting challenges, I’ve decided to post another, and see whether the level of participation justifies the time . . . Lighting for beauty often involves more than one light, for example there may also be a fill light, a hair light, a back light...

Chiaroscuro (from the Italian for light and dark) is a simple but very effective lighting approach that has been used by painters for centuries. It creates the closest thing we can get to a 3-D image in a 2-D medium, and of course it can also be combined with other lighting techniques and with...

This is a very useful and fairly popular single-light technique, although a lot of the people who make use of it don’t know the term “Short Lighting”, which doesn’t matter at all, and if we google “short lighting” we can get some hilarious results:) Short lighting is a technique that involves...

First things first – my apologies for not being able to post a challenge in August – harvest time at the farm has to take priority – and my delay in posting this month – don’t ask:( The challenge for this month is darkfield lighting, which is basically the opposite of our first challenge...