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Unique Lighting
What you get when you get crazy artistic with the lights!
If you have read any of my other articles on photography, I fancy myself a Fine Art Photographer with an emphasis on art. I will do more basic shoots. However, I get excited when I can get my artsy groove on, in a big way.
One way that we can push the boundaries is in our use of lighting. This first photo is a single-light setup. One of my photography heroes is Zack Arias, known as the single-light guru.
What you can do with just a single light is amazing. I will not get much into the technical aspects of off-camera flash here. Also, you can do almost everything I do with flash with continuous light. This is especially true now with the LED continuous lights. Older continuous lights were way too hot for many of the light modifiers.
Back to this first image. It is a hard light. I had a small softbox on the light with an egg-crate grid. This setup is very similar to the lighting setup for film noir-style shoots.
Single-light shoots with hard light work are awesome with black-and-white or monochrome photography. Monochrome photography is basically black-and-white, but instead of grey hues, it might be blue or red hues.
Single-light shoots are also a great way to play with lighting since the setup…
