Category: Lighting Techniques

Skillfully used, sunlight can be as flexible as studio light. Here is my fourth camera and lighting technique for making that bold stroke necessary for the quantum leap from ordinary to excellent in your action shots: Outdoor Photography Lighting Technique No. 4: Rim Lighting Learn to read light with both your mind and your equipment.…

Skillfully used, sunlight can be as flexible as studio light. Here is my fourth camera and lighting technique for making that bold stroke necessary for the quantum leap from ordinary to excellent in your action shots: Outdoor Photography Lighting Technique No. 4: Subtract Light Sometimes more can be gained by subtracting from the light. Most…

Unmodified sunlight is always almost right, which is its temptation and its failure. In frustration, many photographers resort to electronic flash. Fill flash is the most versatile way to enliven Mother Nature’s light, and the most vexing, at least for a while. Theoretically any light would do, not just an electronic flash, but since most…