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Light is another key element of photography. Without light, you cannot take a photo. The more you can appreciate and understand light, the better photographer you can become. The word 'photography' means drawing/painting/writing with light.
13 Creative Portrait Photography Lighting Techniques
Portrait photography is one of the most popular and lucrative genres in photography. To be successful in this genre, however, you’ll need...
Food Photography Lighting Setup: 3 Essential Tips
Food photography lighting is critical if you want to get beautiful food images. Your goal is to create an image of food...
Natural Light Photography: Tips To Make It Work
Natural Light Photography Natural light photography can be a challenging niche for professional photographers who like to control...
Lighting for Still Life Photography
Welcome to the first in a series of articles on lighting for still life photography. Studio still life is the ultimate teaching...
Understanding Rear Curtain Sync (What You Need To Know)
Rear Curtain Sync
If you have fiddled with the built-in flash on your camera or with an external flash unit, you may have probably heard...
Simple Tips to Produce Low-key Images
Low-key Photography
A very simple technique that allows you to produce interesting images is the low-key treatment. It is actually a combination of lighting technique,...
Studio Lighting Photography | Understanding Setup Options
Studio Lighting Setup Options Once you have settled down with a reasonable body and a good lens, the next...
Landscape Photography (It’s All About the Light)
Landscape Photography
If you ask a landscape photographer – what is the key element that can help you make prize winning landscape pictures; the answer,...
Low Light Photography Tips
Low Light Photography
I wrote about flash painting in one of my previous articles. It is but one application of low light photography techniques which...
4 Essential Tips for Outdoor Portraits (Backlit Secrets)
Outdoor Backlit Portraits
Shooting outdoor portraits and in the open, you really have two basic ways to use the ambient light. Either shoot front lit,...
Wedding Photography Lighting – 5 Essential Tips You Must Know
Wedding Photography Lighting
The thing that most photographers find difficult to learn for wedding photography is exactly how to deal with the lighting. No two...
Bright Light Photography
Portraits At High Noon
A common misconception about photography is that light is always good. In fact, too much light makes a very unflattering portrait. In...
