Author Archives: Dave Montizambert

Main-Light Placement & Fear — The Article

In this fabulous article, international lighting-for-photography trainer Dave Montizambert shows you how to take the fear out of lighting as well as the basics of placing the main light for studio portraiture for pleasing results. Wow!!! Read Article Click Here

Portrait Main-Light Placement — The Movie

In this fabulous video tutorial, international lighting-for-photography trainer Dave Montizambert shows you the basics of placing the main light for studio portraiture for pleasing results. Wow!!!

Putting Some Tooth Into Dark Prints — The article

In this article, based on the movie of the same name, international lighting wizard Dave Montizambert looks at printing dark night scenes with all their subtleties where many of the rich nuances which appear beautifully depicted on screen get “lost…

Putting Some Tooth Into Dark Prints — The Movie

In this more than a good-time video tutorial, international lighting wizard Dave Montizambert looks at printing dark night scenes with all their subtleties where many of the rich nuances which appear beautifully depicted on screen get “lost in translation” once…

Mastering Light!!! 3 Day Super In-Depth Photo-Lighting Workshop

In this in-depth program international lighting wizard Dave Montizambert will show a small band of extremely lucky participants how to express themselves with light-sculpting, that is using photographic lighting to create amazing imagery for any and all photographic work! Wow!…

Lighting Chrome (Calculator)

This video tutorial revolves a little tabletop still-life of a desk work area. From this session you will see how to light a highly reflective chromium object and how to use digital-light-painting to speed up and simplify the process.

Lighting Glass Bottle (Champagne)

This video tutorial revolves around a liquor ad for champagne. You will learn how to create magical moody lighting on bottled liquids using digital-light-painting as well as how to digitally light paint labels and create backlit bottle glows.

Outdoor Location Lighting For Fashion & Portrait Pt-02

In part 2 of this 2 part cinematic masterpiece – a video tutorial on mixing ambient light with studio strobe-lights outdoors on a dull overcast day – lighting wizard Dave Montizambert shows you how to create intense drama with lighting…

Slow Tech Sync

To reinforce his DaveOnDemand video on the same subject of mixed strobe/flash lighting and overcast sky ambient light, Dave wrote this informative article on mixing: shallow DoF, fast shutter-speeds, with strobe/high-speed-sync using neutral density filters and how to make the…