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Diffusion – Reflection in photography taking portraits outdoors

How to get nice soft light for portraits using diffusion and reflection.

Annie Leibovitz and Sean Connery photo shoot for Vuitton behind the scenes video

How to Photograph Winter Landscapes

Many people dream of the long, languorous days of summer, with its gentle, warm zephyrs. But, as a landscape photographer I dream of the short [...]

5 Tips for Great Street Photography

# Use a wide angle lens, but get close. A wide angle lens will help you expand your viewpoint, but at the same time, you [...]

What a difference a polarizer filter makes in photography

I was out with my new circular polarizer and the effects were quickly shown, here are two samples to quickly show the effects of a [...]

All about Polarizers – Linear and Circular.

So first let’s look at polarization in general. You can think of light as traveling in waves. One way to visualize these waves is to [...]

I’ve been receiving more and more emails asking for information about the softbox I use with the speedlites. Several brands offer this package, I opted [...]

4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography.

The Rule of Thirds : “The Rule of Thirds gets trotted out more often than any other in all types of photography and is one [...]

Polarizing filters – Controlling color and contrast.

” Of the many different types of lens filters available to outdoor photographers, the polarizing filter is probably one of the most popular, if not [...]

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.

Photographing outdoors : beach portraits. Modifying sunlight.

While shooting portraits at the beach can be great fun, harsh lighting from the direct sunlight can result in blown-out highlights, distracting shadows, or squinting [...]