Sean Tucker

Building a Travel-Ready Portrait Lighting Kit Around the Godox AD200: Lessons from Sean Tucker
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Building a Travel-Ready Portrait Lighting Kit Around the Godox AD200: Lessons from Sean Tucker

For years, my commercial work meant hauling a rolling bag that weighed nearly as much as I do. Big monolights, extension cables, a separate power pack the size of a shoebox. I kept it all organized with masking tape labels and a lighting journal I’ve maintained since my first editorial job, but none of that organization made the bag lighter. The turning point came after I started looking seriously at battery-powered compact strobes, and the questions I was asking myself were exactly the ones Sean Tucker works through in this tutorial.

What Street Photography Taught Me About Getting Out of My Own Way
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What Street Photography Taught Me About Getting Out of My Own Way

I shoot in a controlled environment for a living. Every light in my studio has a strip of masking tape on it with a name. I have a custom app on my phone for drawing lighting diagrams. When a new modifier arrives, I test it the same day it shows up at my door. I built my career on the idea that photography is something you engineer. So when a street photographer made me genuinely reconsider the way I think about images, I paid attention.