One of the first things you did when you bought your first serious camera was to pop up its internal flash and take an indoor shot. That may well have lead to your first serious disappointment in photography. Pop up flash guns built into cameras can have their uses, but if you really want to […]
Understanding Light Articles
If you’re into portraiture or painting, you have probably heard about Rembrandt lighting. The following tips will help you understand how to set up Rembrandt lighting and when to use it.
In multiple lighting conditions, most of the time, our eyes do not sense the different colour casts always, but the cameras are not good at producing good colours in multiple lighting conditions. Here is how to fix colour casts when shooting under multiple lighting conditions
Contrast is everything in photography. Whether it is high key or low key, the way we contrast between the subject and the background defines the look and emotion of our image. Some of the most striking uses of this contrast is when we have a beautifully lit subject and a darker more dramatic background. So… […]
High Key photography is used extensively in fashion, portraiture and increasingly in product photography. Today we’re going to talk a little about what’s required for creating beautifully executed high key photography. What Is High Key Photography Back in the early days of photography, film didn’t have a huge range. It couldn’t deal with the pure […]
If you’re new to photography and you hear people talk about shooting in low light, it’s important to understand that low light photography doesn’t strictly refer to shooting at night. At the risk of oversimplifying the topic, low light photography is really just shooting when there isn’t much light available — whether day or night, […]
