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The Mother of all Lighting Setups – the Rembrandt Light

The Mother of all Lighting Setups – the Rembrandt Light

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Naming: Let’s take a quick excursion into the past right at the beginning and see why the Rembrandt Light is called Rembrandt Light. :-) The artist and painter Rembrandt (whose full name actually was “Rembrandt van Rijn”) used a certain lighting style (portrait lighting) for many of his famous paintings and graphics. For many years, Rembrandt intensively studied the effects of light and shadow. While doing so, he perfected the illumination of his portraits further and further which ultimately led…

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Chapter 6: Lighting Design the Easy Way – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light

Chapter 6: Lighting Design the Easy Way – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light

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Improve Your Photography Skills – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light Revealed In this blog post, I would like to share some insights with you regarding the connection of aperture and  inverse-square law of light as well as their effects on light fall-off. Let me ease you into this topic by explaining the aperture first. Aperture Stops (f-Stops) Switching from the maximum aperture to the next smaller one reduces the incident amount of light that enters your lens. In…

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Chapter 5: The use of light

Chapter 5: The use of light

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More light sources do NOT automatically mean a better photo. That’s why you’re able to capture great pictures with only one flash head. It’s more of a matter with the general lighting and the right moment. Main question of lighting: What’s the later use of this picture? Application photo: If you’d like to shoot a picture for an application, you should look for a even lighting in the face of the model, no shadows should cover parts of it. It…

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Chapter 4: Just before your camera goes ‘click”

Chapter 4: Just before your camera goes ‘click”

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  You should always have a plan in mind before you’d take your expensive camera and widely start shooting. How would you like your desired picture to look like? A good plan is more than half the battle and as well kepps you from having hundreds of unused pictures on your SD card or computer. Strt working more effectively! The preparing phase takes, in relation to the rest of your project, the biggest amount of time and should be done…

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Chapter 3: Light formers / types of light / lighting design

Chapter 3: Light formers / types of light / lighting design

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Types of light: Soft light: Soft light, indirect light or also known as diffuse light, is produced through extensive light sources. We know diffuse light from nature, for example sunshine falling through a cloudy sky. A great characteristc of it is its uniform illumination and its minimization of shadows. Their contours are blurry and very soft. In studio photography you would use big softboxes to simualte a sky full of clouds, but its often used in beauty photography.   Hard/directed…

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Chapter 2: Starting with portrait photography

Chapter 2: Starting with portrait photography

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Portrait photography contains images of living things, mostly humans, but also creatures and animals. This famous genre of photography is all about “showing them in their correct light” as one would say. We want to point out characteristics of them or capture their emotions or their physical and emotional condition. Age, attractiveness,. beuaty or gender do mostly play a submissive role here. We focus on technical aspects and design, choosing the right objectives, focal lenght and image section for a…

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Chapter 1: How to set up your camera manually

Chapter 1: How to set up your camera manually

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In today’s online blog tutorial we’ll learn about the manual basic functions and settings of a modern reflex camera. Manually settings (M) By adjusting the settings manually, we make sure that we’re able to work correctly in our photo studio. We can change the aperture, ISO and the exposure time.   Adding on to this, we’ll talk about the manual white balance. All of that sounds pretty difficult at first, but actually, it is very simple. [divider] The aperture The aperture…

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