Quality Portraits with Budget Lighting

Michael Zhang · Mar 25, 2011

Who says you need uber-expensive lighting equipment to shoot nice-looking studio portraits? In this video, photographer Bert Stephani shows us what you can do with cheap halogen work lights (you can find them for about $30-$50) and a couple shower curtains.

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http://profiles.google.com/grant.griffith Grant Griffith

Very cool. What is the iPad app used for review?! That’s cool.
http://twitter.com/StyleQuotient Melo

Meh.
http://www.kahokarl.tumblr.com Ka Ho Karl

Lights are lights and you can do wonderous things with them! He was using the Shuttersnitch app which I too thought was really slick. http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-10055-10851
http://twitter.com/ikrastev Иво Кръстев

The application is http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/shuttersnitch-beams-photos-from-camera-to-ipad/
http://twitter.com/Crestopher Brett

Good idea for the worklights, never thought about those. I have pair of those, I should try it.
http://www.markheddesign.com Markheddesign

Thanks so much, really well done!
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Calkite7

Thumbs up!
Muuksi

great video thanks. thats the way i started. still loving the quality of the lightsource
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Henry

good on you mate, you are amazing. the shots were great and you have a much better approach to studio shots than other photographers i have seen. keep up the good work

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