Author Archives: Dave Montizambert

A Catch Light’s Bedtime Story

In this article, international lighting wizard Dave Montizambert looks at controlling catch lights and shine for dramatic body shots. Plus Dave shows you how to create a dark moody night time look with a single light and a bunch of…

Theatrical Lighting For Dramatic B&W Portraiture Part 02

Join international photography lighting wizard Dave Montizambert in part two of this dramatic portrait lighting video tutorial on how to do a multiple light setup. In this fascinating sequel Dave demonstrates, using an actual photography assignment of the band “Easy…

Theatrical Lighting For Dramatic B&W Portraiture Part 1 of 2

Join international photography lighting wizard Dave Montizambert in this photographic lighting video tutorial on how to do a multiple light setup, which he demonstrates to us on an actual photography assignment of the band “Easy Street”. For this image, Dave…

Dark And Dirty On Easy Street!

To reinforce his DaveOnDemand video entitled “Theatrical Lighting For Dramatic B&W Portraiture”, lighting wizard Dave Montizambert wrote this stellar “how-to” article on the benefits of feathering gridded light sources to create dramatic lighting with even exposure over multiple subjects––a difficult…

Creating Backgrounds & Background Contamination

International lighting wizard Dave Montizambert talks about using lighting effects for backgrounds and how to avoid common problems like background contamination that weaken the effect. Also in this fascinating article you will see one of Dave’s favourite background creation tricks…

Shoot-outs and Broken Ankles

In this spell-binding article, international lighting educator Dave Montizambert talks about protecting your business from mishaps, shooting under extremely tight time constraints, and creating dramatic evil lighting on beautiful people. So if you are not freaked out by shadows, check…

Location Lighting With Tethered Shooting

International Lighting Wizard Dave Montizambert loves lighting, for him it is the most exciting part of any shoot! In this video tutorial, Dave will show you how he combines existing available light with artificial strobe or flash lighting while shooting…