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Turn Off Your Flash For Digital Images; Continuous Light Sources Make A Comeback
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2005  |  1 comments

There's an old photographer's joke that goes: "If God invented light, then the devil invented fluorescent light." How times do change. With digital capture, fluorescent light can be your friend and I don't mean those long tubes hanging in lighting fixtures from the ceiling. I'm talking about a new breed of portrait lighting tools designed...

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Studio Flash Lighting; There’s A System To Fit Every Need
Jack Neubart  |  Oct 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Studio lighting often carries with it the stigma of high cost and high demands (on electricity and learning curve), but that is not necessarily the case. Studio lighting is only as complicated as you make it. You can buy an inexpensive set of lights that will do all you need, with a short learning curve, without fear of shorting circuits around the house. Augment these lights with...

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Power Lighting On Location!; Studio-Quality Lighting With Minimum Gear: Four Masters Reveal Their Secrets
Jason Schneider  |  Aug 01, 2005  |  0 comments

If there's one thing that makes pictures shot by leading professional photographers stand out from the pack, it's lighting. But while it's relatively easy to get precisely controlled lighting effects in a well-equipped studio, these pros have to deliver consistent studio-quality results in the field--whether they're shooting on location in a dark...

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Add A Little Light; Flash Tips For Digital Photographers
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2005  |  1 comments

All Photos © 2004, Peter K. Burian, All Rights Reserved

"This excerpt was taken from Mastering Digital Photography and Imaging © 2003, SYBEX Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved."

Flash has come a long way from the old days when photographers were required to make complex calculations to get a good flash exposure. Almost all digital cameras...

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Off-Camera Lighting
Take It Off The Hot Shoe For Best Results
Jay Abend  |  Oct 01, 2004  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, Jay Abend, All Rights Reserved

The look of flash photography has been a problem for photographers for decades. As we migrated from huge silver reflectors stuffed with flash bulbs to smaller and more portable electronic flash units, the look of on-camera...

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Making One Light Two
Get The Main And Fill From One Source
Steve Bedell  |  Oct 01, 2004  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, Steve Bedell, All Rights Reserved

Through the years, I've experimented with many different styles of light and many different light modifiers. There's an old saying that "light is light." That's true, but what a complicated...

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Earth's Shadow
Wait For The Right Light
Frank Weston  |  May 01, 2004  |  0 comments

In the Western US, sunrise and sunset photography can often be especially challenging because there aren't any clouds. Without clouds or haze, the sky simply fades from a very pale, burnished blue to gray. No drama. No flash of color. No spectacular...

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Bogen Flies High On Wings Of Smithsonian
New Air And Space Museum Is Now Shown In The Right Light--For All To See
Jack Neubart  |  May 01, 2004  |  0 comments

Well-grounded in the photo biz as one of its premier suppliers of photo gear, New Jersey-based Bogen Imaging Inc. (www.bogenimaging.us), formerly Bogen Photo Corp., lent its support to--and you might...

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Lesson Of The Month
Creating Cinematic Lighting The Easy Way
Basic Methods For Working With The Sun
Ben Clay/Web Photo School  |  Apr 01, 2004  |  0 comments

Anyone who's ever been on a movie set is sure to have a sense of just how involved the lighting setups can be. Because shooting for film is very involved, expensive, and takes up a lot of time, production teams need to be able to create their own...

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Lesson Of The Month
Controlling Impossible Reflections
Lighting Techniques To Get You Out Of A "Hot Spot"
Ben Clay/Web Photo School  |  Feb 01, 2004  |  0 comments

Most studio photographers would agree that lighting and photographing highly reflective objects can be extremely challenging, particularly curved objects like this turtle that mirror everything in the room. Since your lights will show...

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Light Your Way To Online Product Photos; The Samigon Internet Photo Studio Puts Your Online Auctionables In A Better Light
Jack Neubart  |  Jan 01, 2004  |  0 comments

With the immense popularity of online sales and auctions, the need to show off those goods to advantage becomes increasingly important. In fact, eBay (ebay.com), the most popular site for such activities, provides some basic tips, which focus on proper lighting and suitable backgrounds. While...

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Lesson Of The Month
Creating Warm Light For Portraits
Ben Clay/Web Photo School  |  Nov 21, 2003  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2003  |  0 comments

Lesson Of The Month

There are many factors that go into creating a good indoor portrait, lighting being one of the most important. For those who shoot black...

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Lesson Of The Month
Using LitePanels On Location For Fashion Shots
Ben Clay/Web Photo School  |  Nov 01, 2003  |  0 comments

The lighting in most of the outdoor model shots you see in catalogs, magazine ads, and even movies is not always entirely natural. Because sunlight can be very high in contrast, it can be more of a detriment to the looks of your subject than an asset.

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Tabletop Photography
Controlling Shadows And Contrast With Light Tents And Cocoons
Jack Neubart  |  Oct 01, 2003  |  0 comments

When it comes to lighting tabletops, professional photographers often opt for the sweep table. A sweep table looks like an oversized chair, but, instead of cushions, it comes in an assemblage consisting of an upward curving, or
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Lighting Workshop
How To Meter And Balance Your Lights
Steve Nichols  |  Oct 01, 2003  |  0 comments

It started back in the old days of Hollywood. The cameramen and directors needed to devise lighting schemes that would create a realistic, three-dimensional look on film. Their solution was what they call "triangle" lighting.

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