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Contest: Use Lights!

Contest Feb 04

This Week’s Contest: Use Lights

Thanks so much to the nearly 600 photographer who entered our last contest! There are so many amazing entries, and we’re currently working to send them off to our judges to pick a winner.

For this week’s contest, submit your images taken with artificial lighting. Now, just because you don’t own fancy strobes doesn’t mean you’re out of the game. You can use any source of light that is NOT the sun. This includes lamps, flashlights, car headlights, the possibilities are endless! Be creative with it and submit what you come up with.

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Contest Guidelines:

How to Enter
Simply add your image to a comment below. Please only submit one image each week. You're submitting images to be edited, so don't do too much Photoshop beforehand. We want to teach not just how, but why edits are being made.

How to Win
The person who best exemplifies the contest theme will be the winner. If two entries are close, the amount of likes, comments, and a great description will be the deciding factor. Winners are chosen by the Phlearn team.

Legal
By submitting images, you give Phlearn LLC the right to digitally alter your image and display on Phlearn.com, and use your image and any resulting derivatives to promote Phlearn.com. We reserve the right to change the rules whenever we want.

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  • Joel St. Marie

    two light set up- self portrait.

  • Esme Fransen
  • jason zook

    The light rays were done in photoshop. It WAS daylight, so I hope that doesn’t disqualify me!

  • http://www.facebook.com/gregg.eisenberg Gregg Eisenberg

    Can Has Phlearn …Self portrait with some facial reshaping via liquify tool.
    Lighting =Cam left -mini octabox no diffusion, with a grid ,
    Cam right-,12″soft box fill .
    Cam right- rear 28″ soft box

  • http://www.facebook.com/vitaliyp Vitaliy Piltser

    Street Photography with direct flash.

    Bare SB600 on camera, zoomed into 85mm, fired at full power.

  • Guest

    Haven’t entered a contest in a while, why not break that trend today :)

    Shot with a Nikon SB900 Speedlight with a little softbox to camera right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.liot John Liot

    Haven’t entered a contest in a while, why not break that trend today :)

    Shot with a Nikon SB900 Speedlight with a little softbox to camera right.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/leofacephotography/8375885291/sizes/l/in/photostream/

  • Leathy

    a picture of my daughter :)

  • Hannah Stull

    I used a beauty dish, a reflector, and another light coming down from the back

  • http://www.facebook.com/sherry.chevolt Sherry Chevolt

    Vote up

  • Andrew Nguyen

    Hey Phlearn! Here’s my submission! I have a 20 degree grid to the left of the model, a hair light with a 10 degree behind the model to the right, and an octobox to camera right spilling onto the background! Hope you like it!!

    http://500px.com/photo/25001619

    Andrew Nguyen

  • http://www.jeanetteseflin.com/ Jeanette Seflin

    I used one construction lights that you use when you are wallpapering. I had to improvise when i couldnt afford to buy a flash .

  • http://www.jeanetteseflin.com/ Jeanette Seflin

    I used one construction lights that you use when you are wallpapering. I had to improvise when i couldnt afford to buy a flash.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanetteseflin/8167040831/

  • Guest

    Saw Phlearn’s Facebook page and drew inspiration from the staff photos… Here’s my attempt.

  • Guest

    arrh….two speed(LIGHTS)

  • Guest

    two speedlights

  • Kasper Hansen

    I cannot upload!

  • http://www.wolfiesden.com/ Wolfie

    Here is one I recently shot:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfiesden/8415866794/in/photostream
    [img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8329/8415866794_294cc23b53.jpg[/img]

    Shot with 2 speedlights (SB-910, SB-700), ambient burn in to get the nightlight (long shutter 1/2.5) and a UV CFL to make the glow in the dark butterfies glow. Zero sun.

    Here is a link to the flickr set which includes BTS setup shots.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfiesden/sets/72157632613172592/with/8415868776/

  • Kasper Hansen
  • Guest

    I used the TV as the light source

  • http://profiles.google.com/pixelwaster Michael Turcotte

    While working on a project, I looked at my feet an thought this would make an interesting photo. 500W worklight (main), the light from my bandsaw (rim), and a 100W clamp light (fill). Just increased the mid-tone contrast and burned the top of the frame (some fluorescent light spill was green).

  • http://www.facebook.com/thephotochad Chad Thompson

    This is a re-edit of a 365 shot I did awhile back. It’s a composite that used two Nikon speed lights and of course the ambient light from the room. Best of luck to everyone!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kt1293 Erik Christian Spear

    I was in the studio and decided to take a photo of my friend’s shades. I took this awhile ago and still think of it as one of my best technical shots.

  • Guest

    I used TV screen as a light source

  • coryhunlin

    I used my Canon 430EX II Speedlite pointing up, reflecting off of a glass shelf & another mirror

  • Owen Behan

    Portrait of the ballet dancer Francisco Rojas. Lighting was two bare speedlights, camera right in front of Francisco, and camera left behind Francisco. Triggered w Cactus V5s.

  • Guest

    I used my car headlights at night in the rain.

  • Bambi Barnum

    I shot this at night in the rain using my car headlights. (I’m having trouble uploading the photo so here is a link to it)
    http://500px.com/photo/5922853

  • Srinivas

    ~ The Alien Invasion ~ / Simple use of flash lights @ Night.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/srinivasrs/6140661567/sizes/l/

  • http://www.facebook.com/frank.herzog.96 Frank Herzog

    Here’s one with an artificial light – a 60-watt incandescent bulb at the workshop for a Pennsylvania railroad!

  • http://www.facebook.com/frank.herzog.96 Frank Herzog

    The carousel at Glen Echo Park in Washington, D.C.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Boudreau/1577145021 Brian Boudreau

    laptop screen with ring image as main light and led flash light camera right in frame for fill
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaos2k/8448829993/in/photostream/

  • http://www.facebook.com/juanchobedoya87 Juan Sebastian Bedoya

    This photo was taken just with a pole light. he was a bodybuilder when was young. he is more than 65 years old and still exercising.

  • Guest

    “Phoenix”
    I used two soft boxes, an umbrella, and a reflector.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nico.nordstrom Nico Nordström

    From the “Renovatio” series

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002204284189 Sarah Kate

    I took this self-portrait on holiday in my hotel room. One speedlite either side of me, another on top of the camera firing into the ceiling, and a reflector beneath my chin. Makeshift Jill Greenberg setup which I learned from Phlearn about 6 months ago!

  • Scott Smith

    Used two Alien Bee 800′s into a 7′ silver umbrella placed 15′ up as the main. Two SB900′s with purple gels and Rouge Grids to fill in the backside. With one SB900 mounted in a 2′x 2′ Creative Light Softbox to fill the foreground. All controlled with Pocket wizard Flex TTl5 and a AC Zone Controller.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002204284189 Sarah Kate

    Agh why didn’t it attach my image? Hopefully this works.

  • Guest

    “Aura”
    This was a single light setup. I used a Nikon SB-800!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ajcoley A.J. Coley

    “Aura”
    This was a single light setup, I used a Nikon SB-800!

  • Guest

    Christmas Lights are one of my favourite go tos.

  • Guest

    Here is my Image . . Two softboxes

  • Antonio Wallace

    Here is my Image . . Two soft boxes . .

  • Antonio Wallace

    2 Speed lights one bare behind and one Shoot through umbrella in front

  • Guest

    Got hungry watching the contest intro so I got some cookies and milk….LOL. Lit with PCB Einstein overhead in strip box. Another Einstein camera left w/ orange gel…white reflector camera right.

  • rick

    sunlight through a stained glass above a black piano. only had to wait 2-1/2 hours for the sun to hit the right spot.

  • Guest

    I used a D80 a low speed shutter with the camera flash for freeze the people and use the 18-200 zoom out to make movement in the light.

  • Guest

    i cannot upload the photo help

  • http://profiles.google.com/titus27 Stefano Tealdi

    Love has no colors

  • John Coulson

    Here I created a white tent around the model using white fabric and shining studio lights through the fabric to create a very soft look.

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