Jul 14, 2011

The Basics of Taking Great Photographs - Lighting



If you want great photos, it is a master of lighting and composition. This article is intended to give you the basics of lighting and give you a starting point for your education.

Light may be the most important element in photography toolkit. When you're framing your image, you should always be looking at the light source, identifying where the shadows of the design and evaluation of what you need to do to catch up.

the easiest way to compensate for the shadows is to use flash to fill dark areas. If you have an automatic camera May you need to force the flash, depending on conditions, or if you have a good SLR, such as Canon Digital Rebel SLR , then Flash will be a manual activation and you only need to figure out how to activate it.

I would recommend experimenting with photography in the dark or shadowy areas, so the flash can be used to reduce the harshness of contrast (as well as filling in dark areas), just remember that your flash has a range of only 4-5 steps that will be effective for long distance shots.

the best light for taking great pictures is either early morning or evening, avoid the light of noon as it tends to be very sharp and will rinse and flatten the depth of color images.

One final thing to remember is that if you use flash, red-eye can be a problem, there are two easy ways around this, get the red eye reduction flash (which is double flash), or simply ask your subjects to watch over you.

These are the basic rules of lighting, the rest is just practice and learn about the camera. Keep in mind that the film and CCD (part of a digital camera that captures images) are not sensitive or flexible as the human eye, so light in his final image may look slightly different than in real life band, practice will show you how to adjust the camera, and time and charge you have to do.

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