Here is a great lighting simulator to plan and test your portrait lighting with one light source + fill light if wished

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Want full control over the light and shadows in your photography? Understanding how light works is necessary, and this paper will attempt to explain how to affect the lighting, shadow quality, and apparent shininess of your subject. The li ...

Shooting handheld with a 1ds mark III and Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG Some months ago I reviewed the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8. In my first review, I did an in-depth studio test, but I hadn't many photos taken in the field. I absolutely wanted to ...

Light painting is the process of photographing at night and illuminating the scene by moving the camera, or a handheld light/torch. The actual source of the light doesn’t need to appear in the photo, but the technique gives you the flexibilit ...

Sometimes people look at my images and think that the more unusual lighting effects are created in post, but it's all done in-camera. I did this with the Hummer shot to get the detail that was missing behind the axle stands that were r ...

Three point lighting is often the best way to create a flattering portrait, shoot a great headshot and make an interview on video look professional. Here is the essence of three point lighting: Key Light This is your primary light source. ...

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the shot can only succeed if the lighting is right. It follows that we should commit both thought a ...

There is so much talk on some forums about the ’softness’ of shoot-thru umbrellas and how much it works to provide a soft light. And there is certainly some truth to that statement… especially with umbrellas at a distance. But finessed lig ...

The Fuji Finepix S8100FD is a standard super zoom digital camera. It has a fairly typical set of features for this type of camera including manual exposure controls, image stabilisation and face detection technology. It has 10 megapixels, an ...

Light is the language of photography. To express yourself well and communicate you need to be able to speak with light. Light determines what you see (and what you don’t see); the mood of an image; colour and tone. Light can be loud and br ...

I think what will be surprising for many of you watching today's tutorial will be the utter simplicity of the set-up. I'll show you a small shooting space, a simple background, and a very easy one light portrait technique. For me, it' ...

When going through the more advanced websites about lighting, you're bound to run into a lot of terms you're not familiar with. In this article, we've compiled some of the most mentioned equipment and techniques photographers today use to mod ...

When you use your camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera. But that doesn't mean that' ...

Even on a cloudy day, when you step indoors, the level of the light drops by more than 5 f-stops. So, on that same cloudy day when the exposure might be ISO 100 at 1/60 at f/8, indoors the exposure suddenly becomes ISO 400 at 1/15 at f/4. On ...