From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Studio Portraiture

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Studio lighting tools

Studio lighting tools

Okay, we're in our studio here in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, where we work, and today we're going to be working with strobe, electronic flash, and this is very critical to a lot of the work we do. Some of the advantages of strobe-- People sometimes say to me, why do you shoot in strobe instead of natural light? Some of those advantages are the light is consistent. Sometimes we work at 11 o'clock in the morning whereas we also may have the other subjects who say they'll be here at 11 in the morning but they actually end up here at 11 o'clock at night and we have to still shoot. And if you're relying upon daylight only, that's very limiting. I've done a lot of work working with cosmetic clients, people who make the beautiful perfect faces that you see in the big magazine covers and ads. And there are certain rules of what of they'd like and their perfection. One of those is that it must be flawless. That's what you have to see and imagine. And it's usually aided sometimes by a…

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