One of the great pleasures of portrait photography is the ability to transform the mood and look of an image with just a small tweak to your lighting setup. Outdoors, for instance, you might rely ...

“Lighting is to film what music is to opera,” Cecil B DeMille once said. In the early days of cinema, light was blasted at a relentlessly Wagnerian volume: to obtain clear, even images, primitive film ...

Perfecting a professional studio lighting setup can be a little daunting, so learning how to master a simple single light setup is invaluable. A wide range of professional looks and effects can be ...

When Amsterdam’s first city playhouse opened in 1638, an inscription over the entrance quoted Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage”. Seventeenth-century Holland was known for its painters, not its ...