WELCOME TO LIGHTING ESSENTIALS

A PLACE FOR SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
MENTORSHIP SITE
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ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL WORKSHOP

One of the most incredible lighting experiences you can have is working with one large light. This 8-week workshop is designed to give you a taste of this experience through a variety of challenges.

We will be doing:

  • Two Food Assignments
  • Two Product Assignments
  • Two Still Life Assignments
  • Two Portrait Assignments.

We will cover the construction of a large scrim suitable for any light source: strobe, speedlights, continuous light, or sunlight. We’ll dive into using this large light to create images that will blow you away. I have wanted to do this workshop for years, and now I am doing it. We start right after Thanksgiving, but you will get the scrim instructions upon signing up as well as many other goodies.
MORE INFORMATION HERE

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The Collective is a large format book of photography designed to show photographs from members of Project 52. This is our 2024 Edition. If you want to download it, this is a link for the PDF. Download the two previous versions below.

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52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE ONE

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ISSUE ONE PDF LINK

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE TWO

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ISSUE TWO PDF LINK

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE THREE

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ISSUE THREE PDF LINK

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE FOUR

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ISSUE FOUR PDF LINK

THESE PDF COPIES ARE FREE COURTESY LIGHTING ESSENTIALS AND THE TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED INSIDE.

TABLETOP MAGIC ASSIGNMENT FIVE

TABLETOP MAGIC ASSIGNMENT FIVE

A local restaurant has decided to run a special on chocolate on their menu for the next month. They need something that says, no – SCREAMS Chocolate!!! People or still life or cute little furry animals or fish… … well… probably not fish… but you get the idea.   The...

24 FRAMES IN NOVEMBER

24 FRAMES IN NOVEMBER

ANNOUNCING: 24 FRAMES IN NOVEMBER Our annual tip of the hat to Analog is underway next week.We will have some judges.Prizes WILL be awarded. SUBMIT IMAGES. CLOSES ON DECEMBER 1, 2020. No earlier than November 25, please. Please attach one single image and the contact...

A STUDY IN MINIATURE (2019 SUMMER SCHOOL)

A STUDY IN MINIATURE (2019 SUMMER SCHOOL)

HOW I MAKE THE MINI ME IMAGES BY TAMMY BOGESTRAND The start is usually simply an image or idea that forms in my twisted brain. I should really sketch my ideas, but I never do. I do these totally alone and I don’t have a green screen. Shooting in full sun is never...