Karl Taylor - Exploring Lighting Techniques

On this 3 part video mini series professional photographer Karl Taylor talks about lighting techniques by exploring different images and how they were created.

On the first video in this series (above) Taylor talks about several different images and how the lighting added to create the atmosphere of the image. In many cases planing the image in advance was one of the biggest challenges to creating the image.

Part 2 – more techniques and equipment talk as well as some post processing angle

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4opENxE_HlE[/youtube]

Part 3 – product photography and lighting techniques

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgEkHIKEzcs[/youtube]

You can find quite a bit of useful information on these three videos and if you are a studio photographer they can help you get ideas and a look into the way one of the top commercial photographers in the world is working.

You can find many more lighting videos on our photography lighting section.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.