Tethered Shooting

Video Tutorials

Tethered and In Control: How I Set Up Capture One for a Live Studio Shoot

Every time I hand off a tethered setup to a newer shooter in my studio, I watch them fumble through the same twenty minutes of confusion I went through years ago. Wrong session folder, camera not recognized, images flying into some mystery directory. Tethering should make your shoot faster and more collaborative. When it’s misconfigured, it just adds friction at the worst possible moment. That’s exactly why this CreativeLive tutorial caught my attention.

September 22, 2026

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How a Working Commercial Photographer Packs, Plans, and Shoots on Location with Six Lights

Every location shoot I’ve done in the last decade has started the same way: a mental list that I’m convinced is complete, and a bag that proves otherwise. I’ve arrived at industrial facilities without a trigger, shown up to editorial jobs with dead batteries, and once spent twenty minutes hunting for a support plate while a client watched. The checklist isn’t glamorous, but it’s the difference between a shoot that flows and one that hemorrhages time and money.

September 9, 2026

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What's Actually In My Location Lighting Kit (And Why I Pack Four Lights for a Three-Light Job)

Location shoots have a way of exposing every gap in your preparation. You show up to a corporate office expecting a clean, accessible space and find yourself in a conference room with one outlet behind a filing cabinet and fluorescent overheads that can’t be turned off. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s a Tuesday. Over the years I’ve refined my kit down to a set of tools that lets me walk into almost any location and build a controlled, repeatable portrait setup without hunting for extension cords or improvising around whatever the building offers me.

September 8, 2026