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I had a great time recently shooting for a new Phoenix jewelry company, Biagia. Owner Gina Apack has a terrific eye (for both jewelry and photography!) and was awesome to work with. And we really lucked out with up-and-coming model Michelle N., who just blew us away. With her very professional demeanor and Vanessa-Williams-smile, Michelle has big things in store for her future. I’m very excited to see the new Biagia website; I’ll post again when it’s live.

For those of you who’ve asked: this was done in the studio with a medium softbox to camera right and a large silver reflector at camera left for some soft fill. A standard head with a 5degree honeycomb grid spotlighted the back behind the model’s head for separation. Shot at ISO 100, 130mm, f/9, 1/250sec.

Last weekend we had a blast during our latest Studio Lighting 101 workshop. here are a few shots from the day.

Students setting up the lights and metering. You can see this setup in our latest Digital Photography 1 on 1 video. It’s setup #7.

Students Megan and David shooting our model. They got some great stuff. Here are a couple of their images.

Teresa as shot by our student Megan.

Teresa shot by our student David.

As promised, Episode 11 is finally here.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 11 from Mark Wallace on Vimeo.

I’ve been shooting, editing, diagraming, re-shooting, and editing more. Digital Photography One on One Episode 11 has been one of the most fun and most challenging episodes to date. This episode is all about lighting setups.  In order to pack the episode with as much information as possible I’ve had to really work hard to make it seamless.

The wait is almost over. In the upcoming episode I’ll be covering about 6 very flexible lighting setups. Each setup will have a diagram, a video overview, sample photos, and some behind the scenes video showing the setup in action.

I’ll be showing you how we set the lights to achieve specific looks. The example above shows that you don’t have to have a ton of equipment to get some really neat looking photos. My goal is to take some of the mystery out of studio lighting.

This simple setup uses a single light with large softbox.  Both of these setups will be shown in the video with more sample photos for each.

I’m working hard to make the diagrams easy to understand so you can use them to create your own art. If you can wait a few more days I think it will be worth it!