Stroboscopic Lighting Flash Photography Made Simple by Chuck McKern For some reason, flash photography is a topic many people are deathly afraid of and many others don't fully understand. Flash units are just tools to assist us in our picture taking. When most of us think about using a flash, we think of low light scenes indoors or outside at night. Direct Flash Direct flash is what most people are most familiar with, and is when the flash unit emits its burst of light directly at the subject. For many years, all flash attachments were designed as a direct flash (many less expensive units are still designed this way today). The characteristics of direct flash are easy to recognize. Some of these problems can be resolved with relative ease if you can move the flash off the camera. The one advantage of the direct flash is it can reach longer distances than any other method of flash photography. Fill Flash The midday sun is a very harsh light source and creates pictures that have high contrast. Bounce Flash
70 Tutorials For Learning And Mastering Light Effects In Photoshop A collection of a range of different tutorials for learning how to master various types of lighting effects using Photoshop. There are a range of tutorials featured within the compilation which the end result can be achieved by a novice to Photoshop or even teach a guru of Photoshop a few new tips. A must bookmark resources for future reference hope you enjoy. 1. Create a Glowing Effect Scene in Photoshop This tutorial will teach you how to come up a cool glowing effects on your artworks. 2. Here’s a great effect that will bring some energy to your subject. 3. 4. in this tutorial It will cover a couple of different photoshop techniques. 5. For this tutorial you’ll need a photo that you want to manipulate and some special brush sets. 6. A great tutorial on how to create magical sparkles using Photoshop brushes. 7. A great tutorial on how to create magical sparkles using Photoshop brushes.Explosions are cool. 8. Instead of riding snow, this boarder is flying through flames. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Studio lighting on a budget Words and pictures Philip Weston If you want to take ultra modern style portraits with the pure white backgrounds, but think you can't because you only have one studio light think again. Experts may tell you that you need five lights comprising main or key light, fill light, hair light and at least two background lights, and who on earth can afford five studio flashes? One plus none makes five... Here's the initial layout. The photo below shows you the result you will obtain. A single Bowens Esprit with 8' Maxilite reflector placed to left of camera pointing at both subject and background. Look at the close up below and notice that while the texture and crispness of the jacket are nicely rendered, the shadows on her left cheek are less than ideal and the way the skin is rendered is unlikely to win you any friends. Detail from Picture 1 - note the hard edged shadows which are totally lacking in detail, also the unkind rendering of the skin texture. An the image below shows what happens.