The late Paul C. Buff was a lighting innovator and photographic pioneer. He started his career in audio recording with the manufacturing of professional audio equipment. In 1980, Mr. Buff turned his attention towards studio lighting forming formed Paul C. Buff, Inc.

These days camera manufacturers are offering higher and higher ISO settings with their latest cameras. The full-frame Pentax K-1 Mark II, for example, has a maximum ISO setting of 819,200.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re working with speedlights, monolights or power pack and head portrait lighting systems, one of the best ways to improve the quality of the final image is by using a light modifier.

Capturing digital infrared images with a filter or a camera that’s been converted for IR capture can be lots of fun but what about that existing library of film and digital images you already have?

It’s not often that I get to photograph a Playboy Playmate but I did at a group model shoot. Heather Carolin was Miss April, 2002 and like many Playmates she was not as tall as fashion models tend to be.