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INSTRUCTOR TIPS
Lighting
Tricks for improving your lighting while photographing: from using fill flash to lighting kits and reflectors to natural light.
"Still" Life
Every moment, every subject can be framed and its image captured, but to show its life is the challenge. To best achieve a poignant "Still Life" be aware of light and composition. The quality of the light can enhance your subject to be vivid or seductive, placid or tempestuous. Compositionally the subject can be isolated and highlighted with multiple techniques.
A New Angle
Add a Moon and Use Strong Sunset Light
High desert was shot off of old Highway 8 on the California Mexico border. This rock is about 2 hours east of San Diego and visible from highway 8. Lots of interesting rock formations in all high desert areas.
Autumn Details
Autumn is a great time of year to photograph details, and also to take advantage of the great light!
Back Light
Whatever the source, backlighting can create interesting shapes from any subject in front of them...
Balance the Natural Light
In this shot from a stairwell at Notre Dame, Boston DPA Instructor Kathy Tarantola forced the flash off and managed to "trick" the point and shoot she was using into using a proper exposure
Beauty In Motion
This photo of a newly married couple shot in the coastal town of San Carlos, Mexico, illustrates a creative use of fill-flash.
Birthday Candle Lighting
To catch the natural ambient light like in this image, make sure you have your flash forced off. You can also use the "Candlelight Mode" if your camera has this setting.
Break the Rules!
Sometimes breaking the rules can yield dramatic images. In this case, I chose an angle that provided extreme back-lighting of the subject.
Capturing Lightning
Photographing lightning is similar to shooting fireworks. Both require an open shutter which is a long exposure, but the trick is shooting at a large aperature or f/stop (smaller number like f/4).
Create Drama
DPA Webinars, Focal Length, Distortion and Perspective
Digital Photo Academy and LivinginHD present a free monthly series of photography webinars on LivinginHD.com. Your host, John Bentham answers many questions live during the webinars. Additional questions, answers and tips are posted here on digitalphotoacademy.com where you can also view the archived webinars.
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