Get out of the studio, and make the most of your portrait photography by combining strobe and natural light. Joel Grimes breaks down strobe lighting through 11 different lighting setups, including shooting at a boxing gym, a local park, in direct sunlight on the roof and in the studio, so that you can go out on location and capture great images.

Once you learn the essentials of strobes, he will show you techniques on:

• How to use a neutral density filter and the combination of ambient and strobe lighting, to achieve a shallow depth of field.
• How to achieve an HDR 32-bit depth final image with ISO bracketing
• How to create a textured background for a character portrait and stitch it in Adobe Photoshop