Jay P. Morgan has posted quite an amount of very informative and education videos. This time, it is all about Soft Boxes. There are many misconceptions about what Soft Boxes do and how to use them. This is the scientific look at the area of coverage and light quality of the different sizes of Soft Boxes. Using this knowledge you will find it easier to decide which size Box to use to achieve your desired lighting result. After this lesson...

For their music video for the song Bright Siren, Japanese band androp created a mind-blowing giant display using Canon 60D DSLRs and strobes as the individual pixels. They used 250 separate cameras and flash units, and controlled each one individually using a computer program. Every single light used was real, and no computer-generated trickery was used. You can also check out the behind-the-scenes video they made. I think they went just a...

Mike Tittel is a Salt Lake City, Utah based commercial, advertising and editorial photographer, who specializes in sports, fitness, adventure and active lifestyle images shot on location worldwide. Below are some of his great behind-the-scene videos. Make sure to follow him on Facebook and Twitter. Capoeira Capoeira–a Brazilian art form that combines elements of dance, martial arts and music. A few months ago my rock star make-up...

Here’s another behind-the-scene footage of the latest wedding video by Visual Masterpiece. Not only are these guys amazingly good videographers, but they also know how to make an informative video. It looks like they made good use of the Cinevate Atlas 10 this time. They received the Atlas 10 with vertical pully/slider just before this event so this was their first run with it. For those of you familiar with the Atlas 30, the slide of...

Jay P Morgan is a Los Angeles based commercial advertising photograper and film director specializing in people, big set production, special effects, film, commercials. With more than two decades of experience, Jay P. Morgan brings to his commercial studio two special qualities: a keen appreciation of the bizarre and a knack for flawlessly executing elaborate shots. Shooting Time Lapse is one of the great adventures of still photography. In...

David Dvir from 2D Photography has been (somewhat) secretly working on this project for about 6 months. To him, this is a BIG project. Probably the largest thus far of his photography career, and it’s not even a photo-shoot! The idea came to him in late November, 2010. He and his team started construction on it in January and while there have been a lot of delays, they’ve essentially just worked their butts off to get this thing...

If a cocktail of hot pink, fluro yellow, roller skates, lycra and lame reminds you of a childhood in the ’80s then it may be time to reconsider that association; because said mix just grew up. Photographing a roller girl fantasy in Los Angeles (where else?) is Ben Watts, taking the role of nudity in fashion to places rarely seen. Rarely seen because the shoot trades nudity-as-sexual for nudity-as-fun. Rarely seen because the...

A few weeks ago I posted a video by SLR Lounge that we called “The New iPhone Fashion Shoot.” In that video, a reflector was used to light a model and the results were fantastic. In the video below, Pye takes us through a few of the ways that you can use a reflector to get similar results. However, he will be using a legit camera this time. This time he will be using our 5D Mark II along with a 50mm 1.4 Prime Lens. But,...

I just ran across an incredible ad by Nike called “Nike Chosen.” The concept was to grab the best surfers, snowboarders, skaters, motocross, and BMX riders and film them doing their thing at night. The BTS footage is not as informative as I would like but if you pay attention to the details, there is a lot to be learned. The lighting, especially for the surfing session, is really amazing and although you may not ever do a ...

Hollywood-based photographer David Myrick [website|twitter] had a pretty cool idea when shooting stills for the electronic group, The Glitch Mob: Strobe them on white, then dress them in white — and then rephotograph them while projecting them … onto themselves. Quite an interesting concept. Artist: Glitch Mob Video Director: John McCauley Photographer: David Myrick Graphic Design: Urk Producer: Jack...