Studio lighting: where to start? It doesn’t have to be mysterious or complicated. It doesn’t have to be all about lighting diagrams and formulas. What follows is everything you really will ever need to know to shoot successfully with strobe lights…
Light: the magic ingredient that makes our photography possible. Without light, you don’t shoot pictures. So learning to really see light in all its nuances is a fundamental key to improving as a photographer. But what is it about light that you should learn to look at?
I’ve been thinking a lot about black and white photography lately.
It’s what I started with: watching prints come up in a darkroom tray of developer, the images emerging like ghosts at first, then slowly taking on their true forms…
One of my favorite times of day to shoot is right after dusk, as the light fades. It’s a great time to play with long shutter speeds and a bit of strobe, just to freeze and focus something within your frame. But how do you control these effects? That’s the subject of this post!
After weeks of constant, dreary, soul-sucking rain, a day of beautiful, fabulous light! A few reflections about why we shoot, why it’s good for our very being to pick camera up and go out in search of a great image…..
In the flap of my camera bag I keep a wallet with gels cut to fit my portable strobe. The gels all have velcro strips permanently attached to match mating pieces of velcro attached to my strobe. Here’s how to make a set for your strobes and how to use them to improve your results…
What is Kelvin temperature and why should you care? When used in photography, Kelvin temperature is a scale that measures the relative warmth or coolness in a given scene…
Choosing a studio strobe system may just be the most important decison you’ll make…maybe even more important than the camera system you settle on. Read more to learn why this is true for most professional photographers….
Learning to creatively use portable strobe is the first step towards gaining control over added lighting sources in your photography. Today we’ll explore how you can experiment and master these important lighting tools…
Coming to understand the role that lighting plays in our lives as photographers is critical. Learning to use and control that light is one of the fundamental elements you need to master if you are to progress as a photographer. This series of articles will explore this most basic of photographic elements…
I went for an early morning of personal photography in the New Orleans French Quarter last week, up before dawn to make the drive across Lake Pontchartrain to the Crescent City. I felt the usual excitement as I headed across the bridge, not unlike the excitement I felt as a child going on early morning […]
LIGHT. All good photography starts with one thing: THE LIGHT. Light is the essence of all photography. Without at least some light we shoot no photos. Learning how to use light creatively is at the heart of all good photography. Idea #1: Great photographic artists learn to love and appreciate beautiful light! It’s the simplest […]
White Balance: what you need to know
Do you understand White Balance and know how to control it? Or are you afraid to venture past the Auto White Balance setting? Here are the essential facts.
Back-Button Autofocus is a technique you should learn
Does your camera have back-button autofocus? Is it an option on your DSLR to switch between shutter-driven autofocus and thumb-driven back button? If you grew up on shutter-driven autofocus and never bothered to relearn, you’re selling yourself short. Here’s why….
How to shoot macro photos in the freeze and frost
This morning I went out and made macro frost photographs, using my Canon EOS-1D X and 50mm macro lens. This is my favorite lens for all things that mostly tell their stories in the details…
Aperture: How It Affects Your Photography & Why You Should Care
Simply stated, “aperture” is the hole in your lens that allows light to pass through to your CCD (charge coupled device) during an actual digital camera exposure. The size of the hole has a big impact upon your photos. Here’s why you should care…
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