Posts tagged ‘lighting’

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Build your own 42″x78″ free-standing lighting panel for about $40

The ability to control the lighting in a location can be the difference between a batch of duds and keepers. Nice light is worth a fortune in lenses.

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Photography 101

Choosing the right white balance setting will change your life!

Your brain is smart enough to make a white object look white no matter what the light source. Cameras try to mimic this ability through white balance.

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Reviews

Light shaper comparison

Visatec offers a neat site that shows a side-by-side comparison of various lighting equipment (reflectors, umbrellas, softboxes, etc.) and its effect. By choosing two different light shapers in the following drop down menus, their respective light effect will be shown in a separate picture. Thus, their effects can be easily compared. [...]

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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

How to shoot fireworks

Independence day is coming up in the USA (July 4th) and you're bound to see a lot of articles start popping up about how to shoot fireworks. So many, in fact, that you might start to think it's some kind of dark art (Ha! Dark, get it?). It's pretty simple [...]

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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Indoor flash tip: point the flash the wrong way

One of my favorite techniques when using a camera mounted flash indoors is to point it behind me. Unfortunately, this only works if you have a flash with a rotating head, so compact camera owners or anyone else stuck with a built-in flash are out of luck. It works like this: [...]

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