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Category Archives: Light
SLC-0L-02: Shiny Object, Using an iPhone and the Sun ~ Strobist
Whether photographing people or objects, how you approach your lighting is far more important than what camera and lighting gear you use. To illustrate, today we are going to photograph a complex, mirrored surface—an alto saxophone—using just an iPhone for … Continue reading
Lighting 103: Using Gels to Shift the Ambient ~ Strobist
Abstract: By combining a white balance shift in your camera with a complementary gelling of your flash, you can easily and efficiently alter the ambient color temperature of an entire environment. In addition to controlling the color of light from … Continue reading
Types of Light in Photography ~ Kelly Hudak
Moving into the structural elements of light enhances photographic skill. Light quality is infinite and changes all the time, yet once appreciated and acknowledged, its variables are intriguing. Photographers have the unique opportunity to control light and as a result, … Continue reading
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Nature Photography: Tips for Great Cloudy Day Photos ~
Nature photography relies on your sensitivity to the natural light above all else. You have surely heard that for good landscape photography, you generally want sunny conditions, early or late in the day when the light is low and soft. … Continue reading
Light for Photographers ~ Colin Aiken
Light is the essence of photography. It’s not things that we photograph, but the light they reflect. Without light, there is no photography. The way things look to us and the camera is entirely dependent on the light that reaches … Continue reading
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Interesting Photo of the Day: Sunset Refraction
Digitally manipulated images get a lot of heat across the internet, but does that mean they are any less artistic or awesome? In the case of the photo below, which was created with an app called PIP Camera See…
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Tips for Using Flash to Enhance Outdoor Nature and Landscape Photography ~ David Shaw
Late on a winter evening, I was photographing atop a ridge in Colorado’s Front Range. I had been working on some landscape shots, but with the light fading from the sky, the thought of beer and food was beginning to … Continue reading
Shadows and Highlights: The Mark of Excellence ~ Tedric Garrison
Back in the days of black and white photography, I worked in a darkroom as a lab assistant, and sometimes students would make the mistake of asking me what I thought. If they wanted to learn this was not a … Continue reading
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THE IMPORTANCE OF LIGHT: THE FIVE LIGHTS OF NATURE ~ Breathing Colour Blog
Light is one of the fundamental tools that artists and photographers use to create depth, shape and drama in their work. It is the basic tonal ranges and values that stretch a two-dimensional canvas into the illusion of three dimensions. … Continue reading
Tips for Using Shadows in Photography ~ Ron Bigelow
Photographers tend to pay a lot of attention to light. In fact, we often think of light as one of the most important aspects of photography. On the other hand, shadows may seem to be less important – simply a … Continue reading
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