Free lighting tutorials & videos

We're passionate about great lighting, and we want you to get the best out of your new equipment.
We want you to get terrific results, time and time again. Having superb equipment will help, but knowing how to use it will ensure perfect photography time and time again.
So we've asked Garry Edwards, a successful commercial photographer and trainer, to host regular lighting workshops on studio photography at his studio in Bradford. The costs of these lighting workshops are subsidised by Lencarta to encourage as many people as possible to take advantage of them. Please click here for more info.
Garry Edwards and Marc Gouguenheim have also written some tutorials, covering the basics.
These tutorials are free because we are committed to providing useful information and a high standard of customer support.
You'll see that videos are also available for some subjects. We plan to produce more videos, on a range of lighting subjects, because we believe they are a useful way of explaining techniques, so please bookmark this page and check back.
Far more detailed tutorials and videos are available from Garry Edwards' Photolearn website
Tutorial menu- Setting your camera up for studio lighting - Webpage
- Creating lighting outdoors (Garry Edwards)- Webpage
- Outdoor fashion lighting (Marc Gouguenheim) - Webpage
- What do the different light shaping tools actually do? - Webpage
- Working with Light shaping tools (Marc Gouguenheim) - Webpage
- Lighting People (Garry Edwards) - Webpage
- How to choose your studio lights - Webpage
- An introduction to flash lighting - Webpage
How to measure colour temperature - Webpage - Fresnel spotlight attachments Watch the video
An intro to high key lighting - Webpage - An introduction to portraiture - Webpage
- Adding a hairlight - Watch the video
- Safari flash system - Watch the video
- Continuous lighting video - Watch the video
- Lighting a white background behind the model - Watch the video
- Elite Pro Controls - Watch the video
- Using fill light - watch the video
- Using a fresnel spot - Watch the video
- Lighting with a hairlight - Watch the video
- Using light stands - Watch the video
- Lighting a person on a white background - Watch the video
- Lighting with only a single light - Watch the video
- Assembling an original style softbox - Watch the video
- Assembling a new style Softbox - Webpage
The videos below are currently hosted on Youtube - please click on the links to watch them. We will add them to our own site as soon as we can.
- Radio triggers
- The Lencarta SmartFlash 200
- How to use a flash meter in the studio
- Lencarta Mains powered flash heads compared
- Honeycomb grids for softboxes
- Lighting a white background with umbrellas or softboxes. Part 1 Part 2
- How to take underwater product shots Part 1 Part 2

