Noir lighting

Once you've learned the basics of lighting, composition, and camera settings, one of the hardest things to figure out as a photographer is your personal

Just for fun… In my last post I showed my Hollywood portrait lighting style using just hard light from fresnel spotlights. The post before that featured two point lighting on the street using Speedlights. Now I’ve combined two point lighting with fresnel spotlights and styled the shoot with a Film Noir theme. Film Noir calls for some dramatic acting and there is no better actress for this role than Chloe-Jasmine. Let the drama begin. The Wikipedia entry for Film noir is a cinematic term used…

Neo-noirs have been popular favorites since Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) brought the style back to modern filmmaking. What is your favorite neo-noir film?

I want to do something like this on my garage with a spot light for halloween!

I will be honest, the Men in Black phenomenon is not typically my area of expertise. I am usually more than happy to let my esteemed colleague Nick Redfern handle those bizarre and unsettling accounts, as he has had far more experience and a more formidable record of weird tales concerning these mysterious specters than

Film Noir shoot number 2 with the BTCR photo crew and our principal actor Caspar Braithwaite :) This time I wanted to explore the look of a downward shaft of light used so effectively in many noir movies, and in Ridley Scott's Bladerunner, which to me is "noir in colour". You need some haze. I don't have a specific haze machine, but if you leave regular fog to marinate for a while it evens out nicely. A pop-up reflector can speed up the fog mixing process. The light shaft and nice…

This is a picture of what a 1930's Hollywood Gangster looks like. I chose this picture because in the book Monster, the gang members are nothing like this "gangster". The gangsters in Monster and guys who wear oversized shirts with either blue as their main color, or red.:

This was taken on the set of a film noir project I worked on - the production design & lighting were amazing!

EO Hoppé's revelatory portraits of London life in the first half of the 20th century, now on show at the National Portrait GalleryHoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street is at the National Portrait Gallery from 17 February until 30 May

1940s Film Noir

shadow wings

lighting studio work. i love film noirs Noir Lighting

. This List Is A Construction Zone – The Work Is Ongoing; Please Pardon Our Dust And Wear Your Hard Hat: . [If Film Noir were a painting it would be Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’.] . The very first movie I ever saw that one could categorize as Film Noir was likely ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’. I saw it when I was quite young, probably on television’s The Late Show, or something like that. I remember it scared me pretty good. . Some years later I made it a point to see Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers…

Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar’s series “The Architecture of Light” explores the natural illumination of buildings around his native Beirut. His high-contrast black and white photos focus...