STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY - Umbrella (Brolly)

The brolly modifier gives an even light which is good for seeing the object. The light bounces off the brolly and back onto your subject, diffusing the light as it goes. Raising the brolly higher than the subject gives you less reflections and flares.

STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY - Beauty Dish

This photograph was taken using a Beauty dish, which gives a radial light evenly from the light source. It is shaped like a dish with a central reflector which reflects the light back into the dish, which then bounces out evenly. The effect is quite soft and moody.

STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY - Soft Box

This was taken using a Soft box modifier or diffuser over the light source, which was a Bowens studio flash light. To avoid large areas of flash on reflective subjects you can raise the light source above the object which cuts down reflections.

STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY - Honeycomb

This photograph was taken in the studio using a Nikon D700 SLR, with a 50mm standard lens, and a Nikon Speedlight 900. I used a Honeycomb modifier which has given a soft, atmospheric light, with a dappled effect. This was taken on f.11 and 1/200th of a second, on ISO 100.

Two Weekly Picture Project

Looking around you when you're driving to work or university in the morning, you see so many people eating their breakfast in their cars, that I decided to recreate a "Dashboard Dining" scene from McDonalds.

LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHY - Halogen/Tungsten (Site/Work Lamp)

This is an example of Halogen/Tungsten Lighting, which is around 3200 to 3400 degrees Kelvin, an gives a normal to warm glow.

LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHY - Sodium Lighting

This is Sodium Lighting, which you see in the street from street lamps. These give an orange cast to everything including the whites.