She braved the cold to get some awesome shots!

As requested, I’ll take some time now to go over the basics of off camera lighting.  While it may seem intimidating, with patience and a lot of practice it’ll be impossible to separate you from those flashes!
 

So in this case study we’ll be decomposing the following picture. Take a minute and see if you can figure out how I lit it. Then see how you did after the jump. I’ll be walking you through how to decompose an image as if I didn’t shoot it… so hopefully you’ll be able to [...]

So I’m planning to write up some basic tutorials to help beginner photographers get started (this was pretty much how I learned). So here’s the question: What do you want to know?
Feel free to leave a comment!

A shoot I did this fall with makeup artist Pamela Price. Amazing location and amazing models!

What a trooper, that octopus really stank!

Shot at the brickworks

Another photoshoot I did recently with Miranda Lee

Here’s a recent shoot I did with Amabelle Singson

I’ve been a long time follower of the Strobist blog ( if you’re a photographer and you don’t know about this blog, shame on you!) and recently a post on working for free came up. This got me thinking…

I also took a look at what Chase Jarvis (one of my fav. photographers) had to say and he brought up some great points.

I’m no where near where these guys are in their career so let me bring forth my perspective…