Lights, Camera, Shoot!
Lighting may be the most important aspect of your photo. You can have great composition, action, and subject; but without proper lighting your photo might well……
When taking your photos you need to consider what your subject and composition are, ask yourself what you are trying to achieve. Light is going to create the mood, emotion, and depth of your image. Your camera has sensors to determine the exposure with improper lighting the sensors on your camera will not be able to pick up the proper white balance and your image may become under or over exposed. Some of this can be corrected in your digital darkroom, but you need to start with a good photo. When choosing your lighting, weather it is natural or flash, consider the quality, the direction, and the intensity of the light. Use silhouettes, angles, and shapes to create unique shadows and contrasts.
In portrait and product photography, photographers use diffused lighting, and lens hoods to keep harsh lines and contrasts off the subject. And give softness to their photos. When shooting portraits your flash can create red eye. Avoid the flash on your camera and use a remote flash. If you are in a studio adjust your lighting to reduce unwanted shadows, use diffused lighting and reflectors to bring out colors and tones. Research your studio lighting options and see what type of lighting is right for your subject. Portrait photography uses different lighting than product photography.
Out side photographers use an array of filters, and lens hoods to keep the harsh UV lighting from washing out the colors of their landscape and subject. When outside position the sun behind you so that stray light doesn’t wash out your image. Consider taking your photos at different times of the day. Use proper filters and lens hoods to reduce stray UV lights from entering the camera sensors.
Always experiment and you might be pleasantly surprised at the outcome!
Wild FLowers
I took this photo at dusk on a slopping hill, I knelt on the ground and turned the camera to take a long photo. The hill gave a unique angle to the image. The flash used actually washed out the very front flowers while giving contrast to the ones as you went farther away from the camera. In the digital dark room I cropped the image from the middle up to remove the washed out flowers.
Camera
Olympus E-500
No filter
14-45mm lens
night portrait settings.
References
www.kodak.com
www.livingroom.org
malektips.com
picturecorrect.com
lighting, digital photography, tips
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