February 12th, 2012
After going through Scott Hargis’s Lighting For Real Estate Photography video series and I have to say that I’m very impressed with both the production quality and Scott’s direct understandable explanations. Ever since I met Scott at the PFRE two day workshop in Seattle in 2008 and saw Scott explain his lighting small flash interior lighting technique [...]
February 1st, 2012
Scott Hargis and Malia Campbell have been working hard for many months on the video version of Scott’s LightingForRealEstatePhotography video series. Yesterday Malia announced that they are giving away 5 free subscriptions to this new video series. To enter this competition send a video link to the address below telling them what you want to [...]
January 26th, 2012
Today Scott Hargis and Malia Campbell announced the video version of Scott’s Lighting workshop that they have been working hard on for many months is nearing completion and will go live on March 1. This YouTube video is a little ad for the series. This will be another great way to learn Scott’s lighting technique. [...]
November 14th, 2011
Thanks to Harry Lim in Orlando, FL for pointing this video out to me. This is a meticulous demonstration by Roger Brooks, a Architectural and Interior Photographer in Vancouver, BC demonstrating a lighting/post process layering technique commonly used in high-end Architectural Interior photography. Note that I show it here as an educational illustration of how many Architectural [...]
October 18th, 2011
On October 14, 2011 Scott Hargis and I celebrated the anniversary of Scott’s Lighting Interiors eBook; as much as we could with Scott in California and me in Oregon. By any standard, Lighting Interiors is a huge success. It continues to sell well all over the world. Scott has managed to distill his small flash lighting [...]
September 12th, 2011
I just discovered that late last month while I was on vacation, Kelby Media Group announced the launch of Light It a iPad magazine on lighting. Publisher Scott Kelby talks about Light It in this video and also has a Q&A about the launch on his blog. I downloaded the free premiere issue and I like the look [...]
September 4th, 2011
John Quarles asked an interesting question: When I use flash, I normally use the SU-4 mode or the older Pocket Wizards with a Nikon D3. I do a lot of large homes and spend most of my time running around adjusting the power levels when I use flash. On night photography I may use 6 [...]
August 29th, 2011
Mike Kelley sent me this tutorial video that illustrates his compositing technique for adding extra drama to twilight shots. Mike describes his technique as follows: The technique is pretty simple but gives great results. I have my camera set up on a tripod with a remote, and Pocketwizards connecting the camera to the flash in [...]
August 28th, 2011
About 10 months ago when it first came on the market I did a post on the LightTrac iPhone App. The guys from LightTrac saw the post and are now going to give PFRE readers some free copies of LightTrac as a promo for their up coming version 2.2 for the iPhone/iPad. See below on [...]
August 22nd, 2011
This post by Scott Hargis in 2007 is one of the all time most popular posts on this blog. It’s popularity, I’m sure, is due to the fact that he explains his technique of multiple off-camera small flashes. Almost everyone is interested in this subject. It turns out that just a few months before the [...]
