When I saw DexDee Livingstone‘s latest portrait I was immediately drawn in; it was so strong and full of emotion. I just had to reach out and ask DexDee about the setup. While this is a relativity simple shoot in terms of setup, it was also very technical. The main challenge here was to pinpoint […]
Author Archives: spiffy
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Dec
Dec
As the curtain closes on 2019, we wanted to take a minute and review the year. It was big. We introduced and started selling Lumiee – the world’s first wearable light. We enhanced our Spekular LED Light product family We teamed us with bag maker Zuca to create a portable lighting kit for makeup artists […]
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Mar
Mar
Eyal Yassky is a travel photographer and social entrepreneur. For the opening issue of 2019’s EasyJet Traveller magazine, Eyal shot an intriguing story about whiskey-making in Tel Aviv. I asked Eyal to peek his brain about the shoot and share it with the Spiffy Community: A career in Travel photography gets you to… well… Travel. […]
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Dec
Dec
Photographer Tina Eisen, is an editorial and commercial beauty photographer based in the UK. Tina shoots for some of the best cosmetics brands in the world, MaxFactor, Ciate, Sephora, Harvey Nichols, EX1. You may have seen her work passing by the cosmetics sections in your favorite pharm shop. Tina is recognized for her definite style […]
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Aug
Aug
Traditionally speaking, a practical light is a working (i.e. “on”) light source that is in the frame. Those can be desk lamps, ceiling fixtures or TV sets. On a more creative take, it can be a glowing alien egg, A portal to another dimension, or a mysterious suitcase full of something shiny a-la Pulp Function. […]
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Jul
Jul
Discovery’s Shark Week starts today. Shark Week is a week-long festival celebrating the most feared fro creatures in the world, Sharks. Discovery will debut a new flagship show for this week, called Shark Wrecked, airing July 26th at 9 pm. It’s the most dangerous Shark Week stunt, Paul de Gelder and James Glancy spend 48 hours […]
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Jul
Jul
In today’s post, we will go through the bread and butter of interview lighting – the three-point lighting system. At first, we’ll break it down, then we will show some small additions that can make a lot of difference. For the basic lighting we used a Spekular Core Kit split into three lights, and an […]
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Apr
Apr
When CapCom released their highly anticipated Monster Hunter: World game they did a promo, actually building the biggest sword in the game, the 370lb Berserker. That promo was aired by Because Science and DP Graham Sheldon was tasked with shooting big parts of that video. Sheldon used the Spekular LED kit in almost every part of the production, […]
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Mar
Mar
To be honest, I’m a sucker for symmetry, I love it when things fall into place, and everything aligns, it just feels balanced. It makes me relaxed, but that may just be me 🙂 In this blog post, we will be looking at three different scenes, lighting each scene twice, once with a symmetrical lighting […]
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Feb
Feb
One the greatest tools a photographer has at their disposal is ingenuity. Being able to think on their feet and find a creative way to shoot is at the core of the craft. We want to share a few tips, tricks and modifications you can do with Spekular. Now, these are just a few that […]
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