Beauty lighting setup

One of the first very important skills I acquired in my Australian Photography course was the ability to breakdown lighting and determine approximate camera settings in images taken by other photographers. If you understand how the direction of light and its degree of diffusion are controlled and how they affect images, it should be easy for you to train yourself to "read"

Light is the essence of photography. It is the first thing anyone who is even remotely interested in photography should master. And if you’re planning to work in a studio using artificial lighting, you must understand light behavior to be able to control it well. Light is energy radiated from a source that falls on an object and photography is […]

When we talk about on-location mixed lighting we usually mean shooting with light sources of different nature, such as natural ambient light and artificial, or shooting with lights of different color temperatures (tungsten, fluorescent, flash, etc.). There are dozens of cool effects that one can achieve when mixing ambient light with controlled lighting, but today I would like

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