Here’s the typical professional travel/landscape/fashion photographer’s day: 1. Get up well before dawn and drive to a location scouted the day before. 2. Shoot as the sun comes up. 3. Go back to the hotel by about 8 or
Handheld Meters Explained
We’ve all seen the portrait photographer holding a white-domed object next to the subject’s face to take a light reading. So why is that being done? Why not just let the camera do its automatic exposure thing and take the
Balancing Ambient Background and Subject Using Fill Flash
I’ve often ranted in my courses about how horrible mid-day light is for photography. Apart from the colour temperature concerns – an overly bluish, cold tinge to the light – harsh shadows cast from overhead are unflattering, particularly on human subjects. The
Guide Numbers and Watt-Seconds: Related?
Whenever I think about hauling lighting equipment to a location, the question comes up: Should I take a.c. strobes, extension cords and power bars, or will a couple of hot-shoe flashes, umbrellas and stands do it? Hmmmm…I know what I’d