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Photographer Roy Rozanski is a 37 year old photographer who hails from Israel. He calls Tel Aviv his "main hunting ground" because it contains "a highly versatile street life packed full of different vibes, sounds and sm...

Hey folks,Thank you for your patience as we worked to fold the newly revised Lighting 102 module into the site, with all of the requisite cross-linking, etc. I know this probably resulted in a flurry of emails and RSS no...

In Lighting 102, we have learned some of the basic physical controls that we can apply to light: angle, distance, size, restriction. We've also learned how to identify and control the zones of light that fall onto our su...

Let's jump off this train for a minute and think about our different lighting controls in context with each other. More specifically, let's look at size and distance.

We have all had to deal with specular highlights, even if we did not know what they were called. Think about portraits of people you have made in direct sunlight. Remember that glaring spot on their face or forehead? Tha...

Photo by Kenneth LauWhen you light any three-dimensional object, you create four zones of light. It doesn't matter if it is a face or a tomato. So today let's learn from this tomato, photographed by Strobist reader Kenne...

So what is it that actually makes a light soft? And why is it a function of both size and distance?In the portrait above, Dean is being bathed in soft umbrella light from camera right. But let's zoom in a little closer a...

This is Gary. Gary is a snail. And he's beautifully lit by my friend Sara Lando. While babysitting Gary for a friend, Sara decided to actually build a miniature set and then photograph the snail in the style of Irving Pe...

By using a second light to ensure legibility in the shadows, we can place a "floor" on how low the tones will go on our subject. But we can also combine this with the fast falloff of a closely placed key light to get tot...

The legibility from our fill light doesn't call attention to itself. It just makes your other light look that much better. It introduces a balance; a range; a relationship between the two lights.Think of it like a backup...

"One light for shape, another for detail."This simple concept, which I learned from photographer Jim Richardson about 25 years ago, forever changed the way that I thought about lighting. It's like a switch was turned on ...

If you are workng with one light, you already know that a single light can create many possibilities but also can force compromises. Do you place the light for the best modeling on someone's face? Or do you cheat it a bi...

Welcome to the all-new, completely revised Lighting 102. If you are here, you should already have read through Lighting 101, and have a good understanding of its concepts.__________In lighting 101 you learned the basics ...

Flagships compared: Canon EOS-1D X Mark II versus Nikon D5 2016 is an Olympics year, and while Brazil may be scrambling to get everything ready, Canon and Nikon are fully prepared. Both manufacturers launched brand new ...

Here's episode 94 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the sho...

Photographer Michele Palazzo should be a very familiar one to you all. He sometimes goes by the alias Street Fauna and he's also widely known for a specific image he shot during a blizzard here in NYC. Michele's work has...