Jake Hicks Photography Techniques Archive 2013

Your 'basic' SIX LIGHT set up

A lighting technique famously used by Jill Greenberg. This lighting set-up is great for head-shots and portraits and gives an incredibly beautifying look by utilising a ring-flash as its key.

Shooting Tethered...Without the Tether

With the introduction of SD cards that can wirelessly transfer files from your camera to tablet, laptop or even phone, is there really any need to be shooting tethered? 

Start taking studio lighting shots for under £25

Studio lighting equipment can be daunting and expensive when you're starting out but by utilising a lot of the equipment you probably already have and by spending less than 25 quid you could get yourself ready to start taking some cracking studio lighting shots. 

Modding your Polaroid Land Camera

A brief outline about choosing your vintage Polaroid Land Camera and a quick guide on how to mod a Polaroid 320 by replacing the discontinued batteries with modern replaceable ones and getting it synced to strobe lighting. 

10 Things your camera bag needs - Part 2

Part 2 of the article on camera bag essentials that any self respecting strobe shooters bag should have. Including five more items from cinefoil to the dreaded light meter.

Adding copyright metadata in Lightroom 4

After the recent legislation passed in the UK that allows companies to use your photographs for free if they can't get in contact with you I decided to make sure that all my images carried contact details via the images metadata. This article explains how you can do the same via Lightrooms metadata presets.