Recent Posts Tagged With 'lighting'

• Light, shadow, and specularity

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 02:22 in Photography, lighting

  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 light source ...

• Incident v.s. Reflected Light Metering

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 02:07 in Photography, video, lighting

  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. Related posts:Portrait Lighting For Beginners: Portraits With One Light. Why start with ...

• How to use a Light Meter

  Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 07:31 in Photography, video, tutorials, lighting

  Kerry Garrison from CameraDojo.com demonstrates how to use a light meter to get good exposures during a quick product shoot. Related posts:How to Use Your In-Camera Spot Meter. We’ve mentioned in previous posts how in-camera metering can be ver...

• Light-test brings photo assistants’ uploaded lighting tests.

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 03:16 in lighting

  Light-Test.com brings you uploaded lighting test photos from assistants and photographers light-test.com Related posts:Lighting simulator Light Cage Here is a great lighting simulator to plan and test your portrait lighting with one light source ...

• Using grids with your studio flashes

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 15:29 in flash, video, lighting

  How to use lighting grids for professional studio photography Related posts:Honl Photo Grids, Snoots, Reflectors, Gobos and Gels: Studio Style Lighting Tools that Quickly Attach to Any Shoe-Mount Flash ExpoImaging Inc., developer and marketer of i...

• Photography Lighting Tutorial - Strip Lighting Light Tec Tip

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 10:56 in flash, video, lighting

  Using strip lighting in the studio Related posts:Tim Kent interview about lighting a car. Check the lighting diagram lighting a hummer in the studio. Sometimes people look at my images and think that the more unusual lighting effects are created ...

• How to Set Up and Use Studio Lighting

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 18:57 in flash, video, lighting

  This is a clip from a full length video that will show you how to set up and begin to use your studio lighting Related posts:Tim Kent interview about lighting a car. Check the lighting diagram lighting a hummer in the studio. Sometimes people loo...

• Get Your Flash On Axis With Umbrella

  Posted on Saturday May 23rd, 2009 at 06:01 in Photography, flash, lighting

  The swivel (or umbrella holder) is designed in a way that the umbrella does not go exactly 90 degrees into the shaft. It is tilted upwards a bit - this is done since the flash mounted on the swivel is not 100% aligned with the center of the umbrella....

• Flash techniques

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 11:15 in flash, video, lighting

  This video explains how the flash works on your camera and how it is controlled in photography to make correct exposures Related posts:Five Flash techniques. “Bounce is a great alternative to direct flash, especially for people pictures made...

• Flash Lighting in Studio Set Ups / Diagrams

  Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 at 20:12 in Photography, photoshop, flash, lighting

  Here are a few lighting diagrams from recent studio shots : Bare monobloc studio flash positioned behind model, camera left. Monobloc via shoot-through umbrella close to model , camera right. 2 bare monoblocs positioned behind subject. Moving a...

• Home made diy speedlite flash snoot

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 07:06 in flash, lighting, speedlites

  This snoot making article has one of the best effort to result ratio. You usually use a snoot when you want only a small part of a scenario lighten, while keeping the rest of the scenario light free see the picture at the end of this article. In this...

• How to Make a DIY Ring Flash Tutorial

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 19:01 in flash, tutorials, lighting

  You like Ring Flashes but you can’t pay the price? I have a solution for you, and it doesn’t involve stealing one from a store! Make your own for a very very cheap price, about 20 euros. The only thing is that you need to already have a cobra fla...

• DIY DSLR Ring-Flash Videos

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 18:56 in Photography, flash, video, lighting, photo gear

  DIY DSLR Ring-Flash Videos Related posts:Experimenting with Ring Flash as Fill Light 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 attempt...

• Lightpainting Light Sabers

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 18:51 in Photography, lighting

  My latest enthusiasm in photography has been nightwork and lightpainting. A lot of my work is done with a simple pen torch, a flashlight and string, but I wanted to create a broad stroke of colour, a paintbrush rather than a pen effect. Having seen ...

• Quality of Light in photography video

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 15:52 in Photography, flash, lighting

  A video discussing the quality of light in photography, using a one light source lighting set-up....