"Dreaming Of You"
"Dreaming Of You" ©David A. Ziser This is an image I captured during yesterdays’ on-location-photo-session while at Texas School. We had just finished lunch and were making preparations to head to our next location. One ...
DIY Video Set Lighting with Outdoor Flood Lights
Below are some Before and After photos of a make-shift video set. Using regular outdoor flood lights found at your local hardware store (they also come in colored bulbs), a router speed controller as a dimmer switch, and a Pin Spot LED light (normally used for Music DJs) here’s a cheap way to add interest...
"Just Breezin’ By The Bridge"
"Just Breezin' By The Bridge" ©David A. Ziser This is an image I made a few years ago during a association sponsored wedding shootout. We got a lot of great photographs of our model but this one with the wide-angle image is one of my ...
Create a Film Noir Look Using This Homemade Telescopic Snoot
A typical snoot is used to control the direction and radius of of the light you’re casting onto your subject, and they’re great for getting certain effects. But photographer Peter Miesch‘s take on the snoot is a bit different; used right, his will give your photos a film-noire effect like you see in the example...
Lighting with Canon’s 1DC DSLR 4K Capture Project “The Ticket”
On The Ticket, the lighting was a challenge because we used natural, available light and shaped it. I turned lights off, then added accent lights to bring out the depth of a location.
NAB 2012: PRG Foton and HSw Remote Phosphor Technology
PRG reveals a new lighting solution that has won them 3 awards. These lights improve upon existing LED designs to have a 10:1 efficiency
NAB 2012: Litepanels Croma panel and ENG Sola lighting kits
By technical editor Matt Allard: Litepanels were showing a couple of newer products suitable for news shooters at NAB 2012. The Sola ENG on camera lights is a powerful, focusable LED light designed for on camera use or as part of the new 3 head Sola lighting kit. The Croma is a smaller bi-colour LED...
NAB 2012: Cineroid show new LED lights and prototype HDMI/HD-SDI EVF with Retina display
By technical editor Matt Allard: Joseph Jang of Cineroid walks me through his company’s line of LED lights and EVFs on show at NAB 2012. The new L10 lights are incredibly powerful for their size and come in either daylight or tungsten versions for $249 US. You can see more details here. Cineroid also showed...
Use A Shoot-Through Shade to Eliminate Flare from Rim Lights and the Sun
When working with rim lights, or shooting into a significant backlight, glare becomes a serious issue. The typical solution to this problem is setting up flags on either side of your subject, but who needs flags when you have a spare piece of Coroplast sitting around your studio? Instead of using flags, Strobist suggests clamping...
My Master Class Wrap Up – What A Great Week!
Hi Everybody, We had a WONDERFUL week at my Digital Master Class, April 16 - 20. Our attendees hailed from coast-to-coast here in the US and even traveled as far as Canada and Australia to be part of our international photographic event. This was one...
"City Dancer”
"City Dancer”©David A. Ziser This is probably my favorite image from yesterday’s shoot. I love the lighting on this image, the expression on our model’s face, and the background of the city skyline. All three combined to make a very compe...
A Long Day Of Shooting But We Got Some Great Images!
Good Morning Everybody, The third day of my Master Class is the longest day of the week. We begin class in the morning by reviewing everyone’s favorite images, reviewing lighting, posing, composition….. Then we look over my selection of images to r...
