When finding the right location there’s no need for lighting equipment

London photographer Cecilie Harris tells us how she took this photo: – Shot outdoors. The beauty with the lighting in this photo is that there is no lighting! It’s simply knowing where to place your model. Although slightly overcast, there was still light almost coming through, so it created natural lighting without shadow in the [...]

Fashion photography using natural light from a window

Stockholm based photographer Jessica Wikström gives us this amazing lighting setup using only natural light. Jessica: – The big window behind me gave a beautiful golden light on the model and i didnt have to use anything else but the window.

High fashion lighting setup

Lighting For Photo legend David Bicho is back with a great lighting setup for high fashion. This is a pretty advanced lighting setup, but the result shows us that it’s worth all the effort. David is also sharing a PDF of the assignment brief he wrote to the wardrobe stylist. It explains the mood, the [...]

Underwater photography lighting setup

Photographer Johan Marklund gives us this extraordinary under water lighting setup. Working with under water photography is slightly different from regular photography. Here is Johan’s own words about the photo session: – “Helena Engelbrecht offered me here assistance as a pre-lighting model for a commercial photoshoot I had promised to do underwater with the staff [...]

Swimwear fashion and background lighting

Eivind Røhne gives you a new great lighting setup. This is another shot from our fashion trip to Sardegna/Sardinia in Italy. It was a rather cold morning, and we had quite a few bikinis and bathing suits to go through, so we had to work fast. When temperatures are low like this, both the models [...]

White fashion photography on the beach

Norwegian photographer Eivind Røhne tells us about about this fashion photography lighting: As a fashion photographer shooting a lot of stuff outdoors, I often prefer to use the soft light in the shadows. And my clients as well. Then we shape and tweak the light to get it how we want it to look. We [...]

Lighting setup for swimwear fashion photography

Photographer Eivind Røhne gives you a great lighting setup for swimwear fashion photography: A lot of the fashion stuff I do is photographed abroad, especially since Norway is a rather cold place in November when we often do new spring and summer fashion stuff. This is for a magazine I work with, and this time we travelled to Malta. We try [...]

Fashion photography lighting without using any lighting equipment

This narrow room is not just an interesting rough looking location. It also provides good lighting possibilities, because of the short distance between the window and the wall on the other side of the room. Cecilie Harris took this photo without using any lighting equipment at all. Impressive. So if you don’t own a lot [...]