If you’re into portrait and product photography, you certainly need a couple of lighting modifiers in order to make the best out of your photo sessions. Various lighting modifiers are available on the market right now – some are cheap and some are rather expensive. While expensive lighting modifiers are usually well-made and more durable, […]
Understanding Light Articles
We have all come across the limitations of our camera sensors, many times. It manifests itself, in particular, with blown highlights – those areas of intense brightness within an image that were too bright for the camera’s sensor to deal with. But it’s not difficult to overcome these limitations. You can use 6 simple ways to extend the dynamic range of your photos.
Clipping the highlights means that your photo has blown-out regions with this area then appearing as pure white in your image. Here are 9 bite-sized tips on how to avoid clipping the highlights in your photos.
In this article, we’ll cover what is white balance and how to properly set a custom white balance manually in your digital camera.
If there is one essential ingredient for photography, it is light. It really wouldn’t matter how much money you put into your lenses and cameras if they were unable to gather, focus, direct, and record light; your gear would be nothing more than a collection of overpriced paper weights. Any photographer who wishes to reach their full creative potential should make it a point to understand the vital characteristics of light.
Low key photography is a simple technique that brings instant drama to an image. Like most other forms of photography, it is all about illumination and elimination.