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The 90-Percent Rule Of Lighting In Photography

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Tweet It’s About Absorption And Reflection You often hear about percentages, sometimes in statistics, like 75-percent of all statistics are made up, which often leaves you wondering about the accuracy of such numbers, but when it comes to photography, one percentage that is accurate is the 90-percent rule of lighting. It’s not just...

A PhotoBlog Entry

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Tweet From The Outer Banks Photo Workshop Finally, a photoblog post—long overdue, so before I get into the photo mechanics of things, here’s an explanation of the lull. Basically in the past few weeks, I’ve been webmaster, photographer, photo workshop host, programmer, frequent flier mile gatherer, and of course spending some...

Balance, Overpower, or Fill With Flash Photography

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Tweet Fill-Flash Techniques for Photography Fill-flash in photography is often misunderstood as there are at least two methods to “fill” flash a photo, balanced-flash and overpowering the sun with flash. But before we breakdown each method, it’s important to note the purpose of fill-flash. Besides bringing an image to life,...

Lazy Sunday Lighting

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Tweet Three Photos And Lighting Diagram The Technical: I don’t always have the luxury of working in a studio, so I look for light first, then make a location work through proper lighting and lens selection. For these two images of Shelby, I simply had her stand near the opening of the patio door. Both images were lit with a Hensel...

Doorways Are Pathways to Great Photos

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Tweet Framing And Background Separation Come Natural The Technical: Placing a model in something as simple as a doorway will help separate your model from the background, as doorways are obviously at the exact opposite end from the room’s wall. Here, Elite agency model Jenni stands in the doorway of a bathroom. Since the bathroom...