An important concept to understand when dealing with studio lighting for portrait photography is contrast. Contrast is the difference in the amount of light that falls on the dark areas of a scene and the amount of light that falls on the hig ...

How to match the dimensions of your photos and your prints Aspect ratio has a technical name, but is really pretty straighforward. It can be tricky getting your photos set to the right aspect ratios to print properly, but there are many softwar ...

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 ...

How to create the high key image outdoors 1. Set up a white diffuser or diffusion panel behind your subject like a backdrop. (Make sure the sun is behind diffuser but not necessarily low in the sky) 2. Set up a second diffuser above you ...

"It's almost a magician's art: giving form to an object that's essentially invisible. Lighting and photographing clear glass objects and giving them real visual appeal is one of the hardest tasks you'll ever face in a studio." "How's i ...

This lesson shows a very effective method for shooting a full-length fashion shot in the studio using strobe lights and large soft boxes. This shot was lit with a 5-foot OctoDome3 and strobe as the main light, a large LiteDome and strob ...

Metering with your digital camera: Incident v.s. Reflected. Covers metering tricks with these two techniques and shows how to improve exposure in your images.

"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 ...

So, we already know that direct flash from your built-in flash gives unflattering results, to say the least. Using your speedlight in the same way won’t change much. I did mention that you can redirect the light by rotating the head of your f ...

The presets are available in two versions, one with auto toning and the other one without. I just show you a preview of the set without the Auto toning, but of course both versions are included in the zipfile you download. The Zip fil ...

Outdoor portraits can offer a sense a drama or romance that can be hard to achieve in a studio setting. The early morning or evening sky can serve as a stunning backdrop for a portrait. The trick is in lighting your subject properly. T ...

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 ...

If you are a photographer and using flash (either for studio pictures or for outdoor shooting), you are probably aware of the problems that a hot-shoe flash introduces: the shadows of an object are crisp-sharp, creating an artificial look to ...

Here are a few lighting diagrams from studio photos : Monoblock bounced in silver umbrella, single light source, no reflectors.High on lightstand, close to model Direct flash. More diagrams soon.

Tamron keeps on surprising DSLR users with its ultra-zoom lenses with performance levels that once was never though to be possible. Tamron 18-250mm f3.5-6.3 since its first introduction has become one of the most versatile lens (13.8x zoom)fo ...