Ed Shapiro

I would love to help but here are a few issues to consider. Most professional photographers, like me, will select a brand or camera system to suit their individual requirements and ...

It's difficult to tell exactly where these plugs are made. Sometimes there is a manufacturer's trademark, logo, or part number on the plugs. The part number may be that of the plug manufacturer it ...

The old expression says, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear". My version is you can't make an authentic high-key portrait out of a low-key subject by simply providing a white or light ...

There is no simple way that I know of the determine the remaining useful life of any battery.  As batteries age they may not produce as many flashes per charge, they may show no symptoms and just ...

Coloured gels have a simple function, they colour the light for a strong colour effect, a tint, or a colour correction (cooling or warming) issue.  A company like Rosco has hundreds of colours of ...

Are you referring to the plugs on the high-voltage cables between the flash heads and the power supplies? If that is the case, the cables and their connectors and not easy to safe to replicate ...

I don't think the" look" is the result of editing alone. There is good lighting and, ratio control, producing a nice clean high to medium key effect. The walls and textiles are not necessarily ...

The sun is my favourite light source- at 93-million miles away, it does a heck of a job.  Condensing solar light and heat with a lens was my specialty as a kid going through my  '"pyro" stage. ...

Yes- this goes to my point of an artificial effect- there is the disunity of lighting- the light on the subject and the light on the background do not coincide. No matter was the off-camera ligt ...

I am not "insisting" or arguing about anything. I am just making an educated guess based on light and shadow in the images and what I observed based on my experience with ordinary equipment.  If, ...

Are they claiming that with their reflector design you will set up your flash unit in one of their reflector models and make a meter reading at say 8 feet away than another reading at 12 feet away ...

Yeah- Interesting. an optical spot with a tilt/shift mechanism or an elliptical gobo that goes "round" when it is skewed. All I have here in the shop is an old 500-watt B&M optical spot with a ...

I suspect it is a post-processing job.  If it was done with an optical spot to light and the subject AND background the circle on the background would no be concentric or perfectly round. The ...

I suspect it is a post-processing job. If an optical spot was used to illuminate the subject, it would not be as sharp around the edges on the background- unless she was almost touching the ...

Electronic flash units, such as monolights, combined with softboxes are you best general-purpose light systems for product photography.  There are many brands on the market at a wide scope of ...

There are no motorized or mechanized background systems that at "portable"- they are heavy and mount on the ceiling or wall in a permanent studio setup. For school location shoots, the best setup ...

If you use your you might want to consider a roller system seamless paper frequently, you might want to consider purchasing a roller system. There are mechanisms that mount on the wall and/or ...

You will get maximum efficiency as to the power and spread from an umbrella by using a primary light source that can evenly fill the area of the umbrella's reflective surface, edge to edge but not ...

Take a  quick shot of your existing turntable and post it.  I am a regular McIver when it comes to rigging things up. Perhas a couple of heavy-duty sawhorses, plywood and some 2x4s to frame it ou. ...

Arnold Newman shot oftentimes wit a 90mm lens on his 4x5 camera so as to include lots of environment in his unique composition and captured character at the same time. It's great to learn for all ...