Pin It Lighting can be the difference between a good shot and a great one. Walk into most professional photographer’s studios and you’ll be confronted with truckloads of lighting equipment. To the average hobby photographer it’s enough to make your mind boggle – and for your stomach to turn as you think about the cost [...]
You don’t own an external flash. You can’t afford one anytime soon. Are you held back in your photographic technique and unable to take dynamic studio style portraits? Not hardly. While external lighting is vital for professional portrait and wedding photographers, there is a way to fudge external lighting. When you need just a little [...]
In this reader quick tip one of our forum readers Boscopix (see their Flickr account here) shares how they set up a great little soft box out of ordinary household objects. The results were pretty cool – enjoy! Ok, this is for all of us that sometimes think you need that new gadget to get [...]
If you are an avid reader of DPS, you have probably gleaned that many of the professional photographers that contribute are relying more and more on wireless flash technologies. There is so much to be gained from getting the flash off your camera, losing that boring straight at you lighting, and moving it about the [...]
Let’s look at the sequence of events when combining flash with long exposures. When the flash fires during exposure, the normal sequence looks something like this (note there may be some slight variation among different camera brands or flash modes): Press shutter button. Curtain A opens. Flash fires. Frame is open for some period of [...]
Have you ever wondered how photographs get that background darkness that makes the person appear to be standing in front of some great abyss? Well, that effect isn’t as difficult as you might think and the trick seems counter intuitive. The key is to darken your picture with more light. Let me explain with an [...]
I once saw a video, where a pro-photographer used professional studio lighting and mirrors to light a subject, and it inspired me to try and achieve the same result using only ‘amateur light’ After a visit to the DYI store and Toys R’Us, I had what I needed; 4 pieces of 15 x 15 cm [...]
The following post on 9 Lighting Types is by San Francisco based photographer Jim M. Goldstein. Learn more about him at the end of this post. In my previous article “Make the Best of Bad Weather – 6 Challenges for Photographers” I noted how photography is all about the light. Sounds easy enough on the [...]
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