I paid $500 at Wolf Camera for this Westcott Photo Basics 3-Light Kit so I could take professional portraits of a family at my home studio. But the equipment that got me this great shot was a home-made studio kit one of my instructors gave me. The “cheapy kit” consisted of only one of those clamp on lights from Home Depot, a furnace filter as a diffuser and a white styrofoam board as a reflector. This is definitely an argument for the fact that the equipment doesn’t always make the photographer. Continue Reading »

Sometimes you take a picture and you know in your mind that it could have been different or better if you had taken it on a different day or at a different time. Lighting can play a huge role in what your picture conveys. And this is where “Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques” comes into play.
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