"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 ...

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 ...

DIY $10 Macro Studio DIY:Macro Strip Lights DIY:Digital EOS/Holga DIY Heaven:The "Make" Photo Blog How-To: One Synch Cord Fires Two Flashes Get Your "Tinker Tubes" Plans! Cool Site: DIYPhotography.net REALLY Cheap Light: IFakedIt.co ...

"Knowing how your digital camera meters light is critical for achieving consistent and accurate exposures. Metering is the brains behind how your camera determines the shutter speed and aperture, based on lighting c ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Why start with just one light? Because you can get amazing portraits, that’s why. Did I mention less equipment, less complication, less cost, and less time? Oh, and once you’ve mastered portraits with a single light, using more lights is pure ...

The most popular studio lighting accessory? Hands down, the square softbox. Whether mini 12x12-inchers or 50x50-inch monsters, these boxy lighting tools are often the first thing to greet you when entering any portrait studio. But does the ...

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 ...