Articles on Lighting in Photography

Read more photographic Articles on Lighting in Photography. Articles provided by Professional Imagemaker magazine, a publication for photographers who are members of the Societies.

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The Big Light
Receiving an assignment to light and photograph a gigantic, shiny object such as this 80-foot, orange, semi-trailer truck would put the fear of God into most us, but it need not if you employ the correct principles of lighting to the challenge.
Fill in Flash
Spurred on by our Chairman of Qualifications Terry Hansen, we take a look at the options available for fill-in flash or synchro-sunlight.
Lighting Recipe by Dave Newman 2005
The goal of any lighting ratio is to ultimately obtain optimum quality prints from your properly exposed digital or film capture. This stems from an understanding of the unique marriage of digital/ film to paper and the limitations of each.
LIGHT! WHAT LIGHT?
“What I have concluded is that my images have to excite me first, my client second and print judges last”
Make Your Own Incident Meter
You can actually make your own incident meter from a reflective meter.
Lighting for Digital
Ansel Adams is often thought of as a master of light. This is not entirely true since he usually recorded existing light and did not actually create the light quality that he captured; he was a recorder of light rather than a creator of light. Now before any of you Ansel Adams zealots send me a letter bomb, let me clarify my last statement.
MAKING A “MONTE” P O R T R A I T by Monte Zucker FSWPP
The Lightsphere
This is a light modifier, which attaches to your hammerhead or cobra-head flash gun to broaden and soften the light for both fill-in flash and main-source flash work. Such is the construction that it can also double as a lens protector or a macro light tent (although its predecessor was a better light tent for small-scale work).
One Light Portraits - Montizambert
As a tribute to Dean I would like to show you a fascinating lighting technique that he taught me in the first days of studying with him, back in the early 1980s.
Time Value
A lot of people in our local and regional associations call me, e-mail me and write letters to ask me questions.
Whats your key?
If you think about the key in which you want to create your portraits and wedding pictures and you want to develop a consistency in style then you need to decide on one or the other and also because your market niche requires you to be different from your supposed competition.
New Quantum Ttl Adapter For Nikon & Fuji Cameras 28/10/7
This new adapter has been developed specially to incorporate features unique to the Nikon D2Xs and provides the following functions:

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