Catchlights in Portrait Photography: How to Create and Retouch Them
By Dave Montizambert Catchlights might be one of the smallest details in a portrait, but they can make a surprisingly...
Light Fall-Off in Photography: How to Control the Inverse Square Law
By Dave Montizambert Modern cameras and studio lights have transformed the way we work. Today’s autofocus systems can track a...
Controlling Available Light: How to Mix Window Light and Flash
By Dave Montizambert Available light can produce beautiful results, but it isn’t always as predictable as photographers would like. Cloud...
Portrait Lighting Techniques: Creating Dramatic, Moody Portraits
Dave Montizambert explores how understanding light can help photographers move beyond conventional portrait lighting and create more dramatic, controlled images....
How to Photograph Glass: It’s All About Contrast
Creating With Light by Dave Montizambert Photographing glass can be surprisingly difficult. Unlike a solid object, glass doesn’t have a...
Food Photography Lighting: Dave Montizambert’s Guide to Lighting a Fast-Paced Shoot
Good food photography depends on more than simply making a dish look appetising. Lighting, composition, camera position and timing all...
Creepy Monk: How to Create Dramatic Catchlights with Off-Camera Flash
By Dave Montizambert Sometimes a lighting technique comes from a carefully planned shoot. Sometimes it comes from testing equipment with...
Understanding Perspective in Photography: How Camera Distance Changes Your Images
By Dave Montizambert Perspective is one of the most important—and often misunderstood—elements of photography. Photographers frequently talk about how different...
Food Photography Lighting: When to Shoot In-Camera and When to Use Photoshop
By Dave Montizambert When creating a photograph, should everything be done in-camera, or is it sometimes better to solve part...
How to Create Soft Light in Photography: Shadow Edges, Contrast and White-on-White
By Dave Montizambert Creating soft light sounds simple. Put a large softbox close to your subject and you are done....
