light : Monoblock flash head in large softbox .Set almost at zenit , inclined.Single light source. Monoblock on medium softbox, mid-high, single light source, reflected with silver reflector. light : one monoblock in medium softbox on 45 ...

The main problem with using an on-camera flash is the same as using the built-in flash, the light goes straight at the subject and flattens features and can cause red-eye. With an on-camera flash you almost always want to use a diffuser if sh ...

I really love the lion Bram put up there.The original photo was taken outdoors during a semi-overcast day with a slave speedlite pointed at the model directly as primary light.

When ever we use a light source to illuminate an object, that object is being hit with multiple "rays" of light. Some of those rays are hitting the object in the place which is nearest to the light source, and some of the rays are hitting the ...

"The physical law of light states that "the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence". The angle of incidence is the angle that light is striking a surface. The angle of reflection is the angle that the light is reflected, or bo ...

" One of the most common approaches in portrait lighting is to use the softest possible light and to maintain good detail in both the highlight and the shadow areas of the photograph. This kind of lighting usually involves more than one light ...

1) Setup your single light source (It can be a continuous source, a low power strobe or a 100 watt flash). 2) Make sure you use a very large light modifier for your source, such as this homemade light panel, a very large shoot through umbr ...

light : monoblock in large softbox close to model, no reflectors post : mix of desaturations, colorizations and contrast boosts.

Bram from Sweetbeat.be tells you how he got the rainbow in the photo above using photoshop : - Open new document 20x20cm. - Make a new layer and select it. - Select the pen tool en draw a bowed line.Make sure when you have the pen tool sel ...

Natural Lighting Artificial lighting Lighting Angles How many lights do you need? Lighting Ratios Photography is the art of illusion, tricking the viewer into thinking an image reproduced on a two-dimensional piece of paper or a comput ...

Teamed up with SweetBeat.be for some graphic design mixture with digital photography :

"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 ...

check what Tom did here with 4 sources of light to create a low-key dark settting. Dutch text, yet clear graphical explanation to be found.

" Single Flash Limitations : A single direct hot shoe flash regardless of where it is positioned will create sharply defined dark shadows because the size of the lightsource is small and there is no secondary light source to "fill" and mo ...

"Using pretty much the same lighting set-up; natural window light, along with a Westcott Daylight Fluorescent Spiderlite with a 24x32 softbox as a fill light, and a small handheld white reflector to fill in the shadows xon the opposite side ...