inverse square law

Chiaroscuro (from the Italian for light and dark) is a simple but very effective lighting approach that has been used by painters for centuries. It creates the closest thing we can get to a 3-D image in a 2-D medium, and of course it can also be combined with other lighting techniques and with...

(No Ps, but cropped to shape) The first two challenges called for a large light, close to the subject, that produced soft lighting (no clearly-defined shadows), and some of us have struggled a bit with that, so this challenge is the exact opposite – a small light, a long way away, with very...

2nd Lighting challenge – Something shiny. Standard rules apply here – use just one light, and post the results with no post processing (which tends to hide faults), and I shot it in a small room, to show that very little space is needed, This is a bit like a product shot, in that it sets out...