All Entries Tagged With: "light"

How To Measure Light With Your Camera

Measuring light in photography is an art as well as a science.  This combination of technical knowledge and artistic vision is essential to using creative exposure techniques and making better photos.

Combining the art and science of measuring light is used to establish a base reading for setting your exposure.  You can use this reading as [...]

What is Shutter Speed?

Often times it’s good to have a quick definition of a term or component of photography to use as reference. This way you don’t have to be embarrassed not to know. Today we discuss…quickly…
Shutter Speed
One of the main components of exposure, shutter speed, is the rate at which the shutter, opens and closes [...]

In Camera Light Meter

Often times when photographers are learning about exposure in digital photography they neglect to consider how important the light meter is in determining the outcome of your photograph.  This is especially true in many of the auto or semi-auto exposure modes.

Today’s cameras are built with light meters inside.  These handy little computers are used to [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Ferris Wheel @ night

Ferris Wheel @ night by Kari

Landscape Storytelling

Photographs need to be both of and about a subject.
This is something that takes much consideration in landscape photography especially. One of the best ways to ensure that your photographs are both of and about a subject is to think of the adjectives you would use to describe the scenery before you.
Remember that adjectives [...]

How To See and Take a Picture

What is it to take a picture?
In thinking about “the object-ness of what is seen” do we also think about the symbolism or metaphor of what is at the now? What is before us in vision and sound? In texture, taste, color, and space?
Consider that we are taught to work away from what [...]

When to Use Auto Exposure Mode

Can you get great results from your camera if you’re still shooting in auto exposure mode?
The short answer is yes. Perhaps the real question is why would you want to use full auto exposure?
There are only a few reasons to use the full auto exposure on your camera in my opinion.

When there doesn’t appear [...]

Why Exposure Matters

Often times, in photography, we talk about exposure. Perhaps we refer to getting a correct exposure, underexposing, or overexposing.

So what the heck is exposure?
Try to think of the camera’s primary function. It isn’t just to record the scene before you. It’s to collect and record light. In photographic terms, exposure refers [...]

Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

In thinking about exposure and the photographic triangle we often talk about the three elements that make up the photographic triangle. Simply put, they are; aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
But what exactly are aperture, shutter speed, and ISO? Here’s a quick rundown of these common terms of photography.
Aperture
Every SLR and DSLR (and many [...]

Wordless Wednesday: light on your feet

light on your feet by nikkitambo

Small Strobes for Ad Campaigns

When considering the role of editorial or commercial photography as a profession the expense of equipment used to be the biggest barrier. With easily configurable small strobes this is no longer the case. It isn’t necessarily that these small strobes have vastly increased their power or light output. Rather, it’s been a [...]

Love The Light

In photography you have to love the light.
Light is probably your biggest asset in conveying emotion and connectivity with both your subject and your viewer. So it makes sense that you would really need to know how light and shadow play a vital role in how well your photography comes out.
Try this experiment
You don’t [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Early Morning Bridge

Photograph Early Morning Bridge by sterk1

Wordless Wednesday: Mesa Arch Sunrise

Photograph Mesa Arch Sunrise by Brian in Colorado. Too purchase images made by Brian see his gallery on imagekind today!

Beyond Portraiture: Creative People Photography [Book Review]

I was pretty excited to read the book Beyond Portraiture: Creative People Photography as a former portrait photographer. I hadn’t really done very many portraits since I quit the biz and thought that a refresher was in order.
There were many pleasant surprises throughout the book. Some things I had never really looked at [...]