Entries by Frank Doorhof

Tip on Eyes and shadow

Most of the time I’ll tell people that eyes should have enough light. And normally that’s 100% true of course.  But when shooting someone with a hat or hair covering the eyes you should be careful.  In real life the light mostly comes from above, so it wouldn’t make any sense when you open up […]

Tip mixing light

In the studio we often use strobes or continues lighting (depending on your preference) Most continuous lighting is daylight balanced just like strobes (well approximately). However the modeling lights of your strobes are not. They are in most cases very warm because they are in fact tungsten.  This could go you the impression you can’t […]

Tip : shooting through …..

One can of course always shoot straight at a model, aim light…. fire  But you can get some really cool effects when you shoot through something. In this case I used a chandelier, actually the light we used was also mainly the chandelier.  Did you do something funky? With shooting through materials or like this […]