Learn the secrets to photographing beautiful Christmas lights using Tungsten white balance, a star filter and the carefully mastered lighting techniques of a professional photographer.
If you enjoy experimental photography you will definitely want to explore your options with something known as “slow sync flash”. This is actually a setting on many modern digital cameras that forces the camera to shoot using a long shutter speed while it also fires the flash. Interestingly enough, there are a few ways that [...]
Exposure bracketing is one of the best and most simply techniques to getting the best light on your scene. It’s one of the very helpful techniques that us photographers use to make sure we get the very best lighting we can. So how does this work? Well for starters your camera does not always have [...]
Exposure bracketing is one of the best and most simply techniques to getting the best light on your scene. It’s one of the very helpful techniques that us photographers use to make sure we get the very best lighting we can. So how does this work? Well for starters your camera does not always have [...]
Each year people look forward to the billions of twinkling lights that fill stores, streets, porches and homes. Most people who enjoy looking at all of these displays have usually tried to record them with a camera too, but their end results are far from breathtaking. What do they do wrong? Usually it all boils [...]
This photo you see above could never have worked out so well if it hadn’t been for a soft flash fill. You can see that just by looking at the dramatic intensity of light behind him and the light from the front of him. In other words the background light is enough to underexpose the [...]
What is it about natural lighting that seems so superior to a traditionally-lit studio setup? Is it that the light is warmer? Is it because it is usually balanced throughout the image? Does it create a more successful photograph because it is recognizable as being all-natural? Interestingly enough, the primary reason that most people like [...]
In order to understand how to get the best results in your photography it is imperative that you understand the basics of how to read light and interpret exposure. Learning how to read light is one of the most primary aspects of digital photography, creatively and technically. Once you start to understand light you will [...]
How To Take The Most Breathtaking, Brilliant And Incredibly Stunning Photos Every Single Time You Press The Shutter Button In 7 Days Or Less Even If You Know Nothing About Photography And You’ve Never Used A Digital Camera Before