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New Easy Way to Build a Mobile Lighting Pole, This Phottix Anywhere Kit – #97 Q&A

June 28, 2017May 25, 2018 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

Photographers are often asking how I built my mobile light pole. Well I have a new solution, this Phottix Mitros+ Portrait Anywhere Kit. I ordered one from my friends at Arlington Camera and was surprised by what came in the kit. It comes with everything you need, and the parts are…

Artist of Light – Light Like a Master – Online 3 Hour Course in HD Video

January 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

I have been a full time portrait photographer for 20 years, and here is exactly what I do on each shoot. It's a system that is customizable to any type of portrait shoot, families, children, individuals, groups, weddings. This works on location, it works in a studio, it works anywhere.…

How Do You Get Such Soft Light in Portrait Photography? – #85 Q&A

January 24, 2017May 25, 2018 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

How Do You Get Such Soft Light in Portrait Photography? Photographers control a lot of things about light, including quality (which means how sharp or how soft). Here are a few tricks on getting your light even softer when doing portraits. If you're a member, see Bry's entire Lighting…

Night Light Portraits – #21 Q&A

December 2, 2015May 30, 2018 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

This week Bry Cox answers the question about how to photograph a model perfectly at night on a city street. The answer will help you not only at night, but in using flash or any light in the day time too. Mixing flash outdoors is made more simple with…

Artist of Light, Light Like a Master – 3 Hour Video Tutorial Now Available!

April 25, 2014April 12, 2016 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

It’s here! Photographers who’ve attended my workshops have asked for something they could take home that covers my lighting program, which is the biggest and most important part of photography. This is it, over 3 hours of training, broken up into bite-size and succinct parts, showing you exactly how to get perfect…

The 3Fs of Mixing Flash with Sunlight

April 20, 2014January 28, 2017 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

There are tricks to mixing flash with sunlight or any other ambient light. Here's a video explaining the 3Fs, a trick to getting the perfect exposure with both the foreground and background perfect -- manually!

Bry Cox Speaking in Tacoma, Washington March 30, 2014

January 7, 2014February 19, 2014 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

For you all on the upper west coast, I'm coming to speak in Tacoma, Washington on March 30th, 2014. It's a multi-day convention and I'll be speaking all day! I will be jam-packing in that entire day with my entire system. My commercial lighting look that is easily applied to families,…

Using Flash Gels In a New Way

September 23, 2013May 11, 2016 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

How did I turn this normal background into this deep blue background in the second image? But more importantly, how did I do it in-camera, without post production work while keeping the skin tones of the model perfect? Photographers usually try to set themselves apart by creating new looks, sadly…

Lightroom & Photoshop Work, Location Images with Rogue Flash Benders

September 5, 2013February 2, 2017 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

In a previous post, I showed some images along with an article on how I created these images. But the question has been, "How much Photoshop did you do?" The answer is not much at all. Because of my system of lighting and camera work that I teach, it means…

Lighting on Location with Rogue Flash Benders

August 27, 2013May 29, 2018 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

I was asked to test the Rogue FlashBenders for Pictureline in Salt Lake City. There are a lot of ways to diffuse and use light on location, and here are some of my creative ways of doing it for this shoot. Keep in mind that during this shoot, I always…

How to Eyeball the Distance of Manual Flash Using Inverse Square

March 30, 2013April 12, 2016 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

There are two ways in which we mentally eyeball exposure, both inside and out -- one of which we use to eyeball ambient exposure, and the second we use for eyeballing flash. This is how we eyeball how bright our flash is, and how much it changes when we move…

How to Set Up a Light Pole

March 12, 2013May 25, 2018 by Bry Cox

Bry Cox

For few years I've been demonstrating how to use a flash on a monopod for custom lighting in a mobile package. I can easily move the light to where I need it, and even use multiple flashes (speed-lights) using small light stands. Aside from my teaching this at workshops, this…

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