Lighting How To

Daniel Norton is a NY-based photographer with a celebrated career in portraiture and fashion photography. He’s also a respected educator, and in the video below he illustrates a quick and simple setup for shooting portraits at home or on location.

Norton regularly teaches workshops in his Manhattan studio. In this tutorial from AdoramaTV he explains everything you need to know about creating a compact and effective lighting setup and banging out some really nice portraits of models, corporate executives, or anyone else in front of your camera.

You can find more helpful videos from AdoramaTV on their YouTube channel, and see more of Norton’s work on his website. And be sure to check out this morning’s story about a photographer who creates stunning outdoor portraits by light painting his scenes.