Category Archives: fashion photography

Light Shaping Tool of the Month: Hardbox

©Jean Gonzales Each month we highlight a certain item in Profoto’s rich assortment of Light Shaping Tools. (Previous articles can be found here.) This month we talk to Belgian photographer Jean Gonzales about an often-overlooked tool: the Hardbox. As the name suggests, the Hardbox is the opposite of a softbox. In other words, the Hardbox [...]

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Marco Fazio: The Homes We Live in and the Clothes We Wear

©Marco Fazio Combining fashion and interior photography might not be a revolutionary idea, but speaking to Italian-born photographer Marco Fazio, you get the feeling that he has put more thought into it than most. “In my own opinion, the homes we live in and the clothes we wear are two faces of the same need: [...]

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Eric Chang and the Beautifully Bizarre

©Eric Chang Not many photographers can brag about having their prints hanging on a wall in sir Elton John’s home. But Eric Chang can. And just like the knighted singer, Eric likes his art exceptionally extravagant and beautifully bizarre. Eric Chang is a Los Angeles-based photographer and film director born in East Java, Indonesia. The [...]

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Brett Harkness Driving Miss Daisy at Night

Photographer Brett Harkness recently shared with us images and diagrams from the book Light & Shoot / 50 Fashion Photos by Chris Gatcum. Here are his thoughts and details behind putting together the images from this shoot. This image was shot for a clothing company called Love Miss Daisy, which focuses on 1950’s vintage clothing. [...]

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Kevin Michael Schmitz’s Film Noir Inspired Fashion Shoot

In a post on SLR Lounge, celebrity and fashion photographer Kevin Michael Schmitz and the  Location Lighting Photography Workshop Series takes us through a recent shoot he did for the October issue of The Los Angeles Fashion Magazine. The post is incredibly detailed and includes the final image as it appeared in the magazine, a [...]

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Light Shaping Tool of the Month: Magnum Reflector

@Ab Sesay Each month we highlight a certain item in Profoto’s rich assortment of Light Shaping Tools. (If you want to browse through previous articles, click the Light Shaping Tool of the Month banner on the right.) This month we talk to Ab Sesay about one of his favorite tools: the Magnum Reflector. Ab is [...]

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Katie Thompson’s Shattered Mirror Portraits

Mirrors | © 2012 Katie Thompson Katie Thompson is a fashion and portrait photographer working between Chicago, Illinois and Rochester, New York. Her photography is whimsical, imaginative, sometimes darkly humorous, and always beautifully lit. Here, she shares some beauty shots, with a reflective twist. This shot was done as part of a series of images [...]

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VIDEO: Tobias Björkgren Shoots Fashion with Softboxes

Some of you might recall the interview we did in in early November with Swedish photographer Tobias Björkgren, who was one of the first to do a real life shoot with the new Profoto RFi softboxes. (In case you don’t, the interview is still available here.) Last week, Tobias published a behind-the-scenes video from that very [...]

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VIDEO: Behind the Scenes with Robert Jaso

Parisian photographer Robert Jaso specializes in fashion and beauty work. Take a peek behind the scenes of Glint, a glamorous, sparkly, James Bond inspired fashion shoot. Shooting with his Mamiya RZ67 Pro IID and Leaf Aptus 75S digital back, Jaso uses a combination of strobes and hot lights to create a look that is simultaneously [...]

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Dimitar Iliev Shoots for Phase One

Have you perhaps visited Phase One’s website recently to check out the new Capture One Pro 7 software? If you have, then you might remember these colorful promotional images, shot by London based photographer Dimitar Iliev? We recently caught up with Dimitar and asked him to tell us a little about the shoot. Here is

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