How I Photographed the Former CEO of Philips Lighting in Under 20 Minutes
I had an assignment to photograph the former CEO of Philips Lighting for New York Times. He flew into Boston for a few days for a conference from Europe and I h...
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TIPS: Utilizing Available Light with Exposure and Timing
Sometimes lighting means analyze the light that is present and use it to your advantage. All my previous "Tuesday's Tips" have been about lighting with s...
How do you Light a London Asylum?
My destination Location Lighting Workshop held at the Societies Photographic Convention, aka SWPP in London resulted in some wonderful images and was an event ...
How I Photographed the New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski for Sports Illustrated
I had a great assignment on New Year's day photographing Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots for Sports Illustrated at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Ma...
Tuesday’s Tips: Lighting Hyunah
This week's Tuesday Tips is based on a photograph from my studio. As a photojournalist and corporate photographer, I do the majority shoots on location, alt...
This Week’s Tips: Happy Chanukah!
Happy first night of Chanukah! The Festival of Lights. For this week's Tuesday's Tips I thought I should light the lights. Since it 's the first night, I li...
TIPS: Rick Friedman’s Quick Trip to India
We had a couple of weeks that “Tuesday’s Tips” was absent, but I had a good excuse. I flew to India to attend my stepson Michael’s wedding in Goa. It was a uniq...
Tuesday’s Tips: Chasing Shadows!
For the past two weeks I've discussed how to add color to your background using Rosco gels and Cinefoil from my Location Lighting Kit. For this week's Tuesday T...
Running out of Light, Let’s Make More!
This week’s “Tuesday’s Tips” features an architectural shoot we did yesterday. Our client was Mark Connor, the architect who designed the Callahan building on t...
Tueday’s Tips: Fun at PhotoPlus in New York
I had a great time at PhotoPlus in NYC, presenting 5 lectures and live demos for Sunbounce, Rosco, Expoimaging and Unique Photo during the show. Here are a few...
Tuesday’s Tips “Throwing colors” : my new Location Lighting Kit from Rosco
I'm excited to announce that Rosco is releasing the new version of the "Rick Friedman Location Lighting Kit" at PhotoPlus Expo in NY this week. Lots of color g...
Shooting Colorado!
A few weeks ago I traveled through Colorado from Denver to the Telluride Photo Festival. I had the honor to teach two Location Lighting Workshops and presented ...
How To Get Great Light With On Camera Flash
I'm often asked the question of how to properly handle on camera flash? After thousands of successful assignments I think it's safe to say that I have a few tr...
Location Lighting Tips: Lighting up the night
Last night I had a chance to work with the brand new Dynalite Baja strobe, the newest addition to the Dynalite line. The Baja is a self contained battery opera...
Lighting Tips: Strobe On, Strobe Off!
I was recently asked to demonstrate the difference between strobe on camera and strobe off camera. The examples below show how changing the position of the stro...
