Strobist Photo Trade Secrets, Volume 2: Portrait Lighting Techniques

Get full access to Strobist Photo Trade Secrets, Volume 2: Portrait Lighting Techniques and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

DANIEL SCHNEIDER

Delicious Ritual Suicide

ALL THE LIGHTING skills in the world won’t make a great image without a great idea. Fortunately Daniel Schneider had both. The idea? Create the impression of an endless sea of Gummi Bears lined up waiting to be eaten. Not having an endless sea of Gummi Bears, he used a tight crop and short depth of field to let the viewer’s imagination fill in the blanks. The tricky part was to avoid distracting shadows. So he aimed one flash at the perfect ...

Get Strobist Photo Trade Secrets, Volume 2: Portrait Lighting Techniques now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now