LIGHTING

Transmission versus Reflection with photo umbrella's.

In this lesson, we will look at how the efficiency of a light reflector works. To illustrate this, we will employ the line up of [...]

Lighting diagrams from studio shots I.

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

The Right Lights. Photo gear in studio and on location.

“Few decisions can push your photography to the next level like investing in serious, off-camera lighting. But what type of light? Your choices include exotics [...]

DIY Photo Studio Product Lighting.

DIY Photo Studio Product Lighting

Camera metering and exposure.

“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 [...]

Techniques for softer fill flash and softboxes on hot-shoe flashes.

“When shooting portraits outdoors, it is often necessary to control or modify the natural light in order to achieve the most flattering results. In a [...]

Light Faster With a Cheat Sheet.

” 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 [...]

Good Lighting is an art article.

“The aim of this article is to introduce you to the versatility of your new Paglight whilst exposing the secrets of good lighting in such [...]

Using Through The Lens TTL metering.

I’ve done comparison testing with all 18 of the possible ambient / fill metering combinations on my Canon 20D and having been shooting seriously since [...]

Lighting Ratios and Incident Metering.

“Light ratios are confusing because there is more than one way to describe the difference in intensity between lights and because incident readings used to [...]

Lighting set-ups for studio portraits with flash.

“We discuss three lighting options with our portrait studio continuous lighting kit. The kit consists of 3 lights including the “key”, “fill” and “back” or [...]

Shooting Food Shots at Home. Food Photography

“Have you ever sat down to a plate of food and thought, “This would make a great photograph”? When the food, setting and lighting all [...]

Photos with the speedlites and the softbox : click continue for more photos and flash set-up images. Flash is set on ETTL , compensated between [...]

Flash over sun photos. Shooting with a studio strobe outdoors.

click continue for set-up and additional photos. We moved the flash from frontal position to a position of 45 degrees from the model, direct light.

Light position and distance.

“The thing that should strike you from this exercise is just how different a three-dimensional form can look when lit from different angles.

Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter review.

The Ray Flash is the first commercially produced ring flash adapter designed to turn a speedlight into a ringflash. While ringlight is nothing new around [...]

Testing the Radiopopper at FlashFlavor.

“I used 3 flash unites in 2 different flash groups, Group A + Group B. (Remember, this is TTL folks). Group A 1:1 and Group [...]

Shooting and lighting for food with Scott Kelby.

“Using pretty much the same lighting set-up; natural window light, along with a Westcott Daylight Fluorescent Spiderlite with a 24×32 softbox as a fill light, [...]

Balancing the sun with flash.Crosslighting Photography.

“Warm up your eye and compositional brain using the sunlight properly, then convert to using your strobes to make a composition that you need for [...]

Balancing light : Twilight – ambient light and flash.

“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 [...]

Creating a custom living room portrait – portrait photography on location.

“In portrait photography, it helps to have a sense of imagination, vision, composition, and at times, a sense of humor. Interaction with your subjects is [...]

Light up the Floor – A Floor Lit Table Top Studio Project.

“Just recently, I became the proud owner of a new dining room table. Not a massively exciting announcement you might think (and you would be [...]

How to make an inexpensive light tent for product photography.

One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of these light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with [...]

Outdoor Portraits Lighting and Flash.

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 [...]

Understanding how softboxes work.

Before you shell out the money for a new camera, you’ll most likely want to learn about what the camera is capable of doing. “Will [...]

Studio Photography and Lighting article at Photo.net.

Studio photography is easy because you can get exactly what you want. Studio photography is hard because you can get exactly what you want. Soft [...]

Studio Lighting on a budget.

If you want to take ultra modern style portraits with the pure white backgrounds, but think you can’t because you only have one studio light [...]

Flash light zoom settings with umbrella's.

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 [...]

Dg28's photography and lighting techniques and tips.

A lot of news photographers don’t think that they are allowed enough time to light pictures, so they rely on their hot shoe mounted flash [...]

Dave Black's Workshop at the Ranch photography set-ups and tips.

Hi and welcome to this edition of Workshop at the Ranch. When I get excited about a piece of equipment that allows me to make [...]

4 light sources, dark setting photography outcome.

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.

Interior photography interview and how-to.

Set the ISO to 400 – this gives you much greater latitude with the strobes. Set the aperture to f/6.3 as a good starting point. [...]

Flash gels for correcting color temperature.

A lot of people been asking me what are Color Temperature (CT) flash gels for and where they can find it. On the first part [...]

Annie Leibovitz meets the Queen video and annotations.

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 [...]

580ex and 550ex speedlite flashes bounced in silver umbrella and modified by softbox set up and sample photos.

Click here for speedlite flashes in softbox and umbrella set-ups with sample photos.

Studio Lighting – a beginners guide to lighting.

Studio lighting can be broken down into two categories, continuous and flash. While continuous lighting has two main advantages there are many disadvantages. The good [...]

Flash mounted do-it-yourself softbox.

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 [...]

Lighting ratios in portrait photography.

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 [...]

Digital photography tutorials at Photoxels.com.

Exposure bracketing Fill flash Area focus

Digital Photography One On One Episode 2 – Using a Light Meter.

550ex Speedlite flashes in softboxes lighting set up.

Set-up photo : Thanks to Gerard

Light forms in photography at Photo.net.

The hardness of the light will generate dark shadows. The direction of the light will place those shadows in unattractive positions underneath the subject’s eyes [...]

Digital Photography One On One E001 – Key Shifting and Shutter Speed

In this episode of Digital Photography One on One, Mark Wallace [SnapFactory.com] explains Key Shifting and how your shutter speed affects exposure when using an [...]

Few new photos with lighting set-ups.

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 [...]

Understanding histograms

Possibly the most useful tool available in digital photography is the histogram. It could also well be the least understood. In this article we will [...]

Do-it-yourself solutions from Strobist.com

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” [...]

High Dynamic Range (hdr) in photography.

Definitions What is Dynamic Range? What is the unit of Dynamic Range? What is an HDR image?

On-camera single light. Wired Off-camera single light. Wireless Off-camera single light. Hotshoe FILL + Wireless KEY light. Wired FILL + Wireless KEY light.

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