Explore the world of off-camera lighting thanks to Strobist Links to Strobist articles out of the Lighting 101 ( © Strobist ) : Two Things Your Flash Needs to Have Traveling Light Light Stands Super Clamps Ball Bungees Umb ...

Welcome to On Assignment, where you can build on your Lighting 101 skills by learning exactly how real-world assignments were lit. The object will be to explain the process of making the photos as clearly as possible. But if you have worked ...

Dave Hill look at Flickr Beers with Dave Hill at Strobist Creating that Dave Hill look at DIYPhotography Cool gritty look in camera raw photoshop and lightroom by Scott Kelby Lucisart Photoshop plugin review at Scott Kelby ...

"I shot in the middle of the afternoon to use this portrait as an example of how to light an outdoor portrait with a couple of small flashes on a sunny day." "Being able to create a speedlight-lit photo like this any day, rain or shine ...

"We live in a world of off-axis light. The sun does not stay right behind us. Our lighting fixtures at home illuminate us from above and other various angles. And we are constantly exposed to imagery - both still and moving - that makes use o ...

"The thing that should strike you from this exercise is just how different a three-dimensional form can look when lit from different angles. 1. Light has depth of field. 2. With enough light, you can turn a white wall black. " cont ...

The first thing you have to ask yourself before choosing the flash setting for your umbrella is, how big do you want your light source to be? But before we get to that, let's make sure we all know what we mean by "zoom setting." Re ...

Definitions What is Dynamic Range? What is the unit of Dynamic Range? What is an HDR image? But aren't we confusing dynamic range with bit-depth here? Shouldn't 24-bit be higher than 16-bit? I'm lost with all those bit numbers! High ...

I have seen a couple versions of video from Annie Leibovitz's Queen Elizabeth shoot. But this is the full segment, and has lots of interesting tidbits Annie scouts rooms, making notes with a camera. This is common practice with pros, n ...

"To really understand the concept of balancing light, many of you will have to expand your concept of a so-called proper exposure. After all, you are creating a scene that has precisely the tonal range that you want it to. You can use this ab ...

" One of the first hurdles in learning off-camera flash photography in the manual mode is knowing where to set your flash for that first test exposure. For beginners, it can almost seem arbitrary or random. More experienced photographe ...

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The fourth time-based manipulation I frequently use is zooming through the exposure. And last month we pulled that technique out of our as.. bag of tricks during the "stone soup" shoot in NYC. As you can see, one came from back camer ...

"Typical indoor ambient light, for instance, might be about 1/60th at 4/f at ISO 400. So If I shoot you in that light, available only, you are going to be properly exposed. You'll still probably look pretty bad -- we nailed the quantity, but ...

For better or worse, my goal is for this experience to serve as a sort of template for how I approach a new lighting technique. This week deals with first attempts to reverse engineer how people were getting that cool, controllable 3-D ...