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Lighting Photography Portrait - Learning The Basics!

When lighting photography portrait basics, it is necessary to know the function of all the assorted lights involved. These lighting patterns are thought of as standard patterns because they WORK and every photographer should totally understand them...

The main light's usage in lighting photography portraits is to provide the base lighting. This is the one that you will usually read and use for your exposure settings.

To be a main or key source, it doesn't have to actually be an expensive studio strobe. It could be naturally occuring light, your on camera flash , or even a reflector kicking illumination into the subject .

If you want to make your subject appear three dimensional rather than flat and lifeless , your main light should be off to the side so that shadows- on the opposing side of the face - are created.

Depending on the strength of your key light, the shadow area could be very deep and intense. In the main, this is not ideal. We will want to brighten the shadow so that features of the subject's face are visible .

Enter the second or fill light. As before , this can be an additional studio strobe, ambient light, the camera's flash or even a reflector bouncing light from the key light into the shadow areas.

The intensity of the fill light - relative to the key light - is what will decide the darkness and intensity of the shadows. A general rule of thumb is to have the fill light be about 1/2 the strength of the key light.

The 3rd light source is known as the background light, separation light, or hair light. It too can be any type of illumination . This third   light is used to make the subject stand out from the background.

This light can be turned away from the model and directlyonto the background, or aimed toward the subject - creating what's called a rim light. Or it could be placed higher than the subject where it becomes a hair light.

This is the standard three light set up used in lighting photography portrait models in most photo studios around the world.

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Understanding Basic Image Parameters In Digital Photography

In this photography online course we will be understanding some more image parameters and improving digital camera image quality.

Saturation: Saturation is the intensity of a particular color. An image with color saturation as zero is a gray-scale image. Some digital cameras have a sharp contrast setting that increases the saturation of all colors in an image. This attribute can be used in Photoshop also. Some image viewers also make available this option.

This feature is helpful in the still images of flowers and fruits. It depicts the natural color of the subject better. If you reduce the saturation of an object digitally; it gives a rustic effect to the photograph. The rustic effect is particularly useful when you are photographing bus, train or truck. You could also reduce the saturation and increase contrast to give a grunge feel to the picture image. This is useful for portraits or the pictures of pets.

You can also use some filters along with digital camera lenses. These increase the saturation of a particular color. For SLR and dSLR camera, obtainable filters are green, red and blue.  Some digital cameras such as Nikon Coolpix P50 and Canon Power shot SD850 IS offer saturation controls for these colors as well as custom color options.

Hue: Some dSLR cameras have hue option, which shifts all colors by a certain degree. You can do this using an image editing software also. This feature can be used for unreal digital photography to match with the tone of the event.

Contrast: Contrast increases the glowing element of a colour in terms of its brightness. A high contrast in an image makes the subject in focus to stand out against a background or it brings into focus a wide array of subjects such as photo of a marketplace. The better the contrast, better are the details brought out.

Sharpness: It is also called as acutance. It is a measure of the sharpness with which a film can imitate the edge of an object. A greater sharpness gives a grainier image while a reduced sharpness gives a washed out appearance. Sharp images are appealing in close-ups whereas it looks not natural in portraits.

Tone: The tone in an image sets the mood of the image. The tone could be warm or cool. A warm tone tends to be more redder with predominant colors red, yellow and orange. A cool tone tens to be bluer with soft and mellow colors. Warm tone is considered masculine where as cool tone is considered as feminine.

Black and white: This is a standard feature in digital cameras and dSLR cameras. This color scheme does have a charm attached to it but it is often overused. It is always a best idea to take a color photograph and then convert it into grayscale on computer. You can increase contrast to improve detailing in grayscale images.

Sepia: In olden photographs, a chemical was used to make the photographs last longer. This generates the sepia tone in photographs. Modern digital cameras and dSLRs have this feature readymade in them 

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Learn Digital Photography - How To Be Good In Portrait Photography

Portrait photography can be fun and yet difficult to master. It is normal to see photographers struggling with the subject's pose and sometime things can get ugly when the photographer and subject can't agree on the pose.

That is when you need to talk to your models and make them understand all you want to do is to get the best out of them. You are aiming for that special glow that only your model can show. Of course then you have to listen to their feedback and see what they want in their picture. It is their pictures after all.

When both of you are relax, look seriously at your subject. Look at their face and see what is so special about your subject. A good portrait photographer can see the character of a person from his or her face and know how to put the lighting to properly illuminate your model. Some said that you can even tell a person's story with portrait photography when you look hard enough.

Now, impressing your models with their portrait is easy when you can capture their pictures in a different perspective. Everyone is unique in their own way and looking at that, shouldn't everyone have their own special portrait? You can ask your model to look away from the camera and focus on his face. Or you can get your model to rest her head on her palm so that you can focus on her gaze. What you need to do here is to be creative and shoot out of the box.

Besides that, good portrait photographers can make do with the equipments they already have. It is true that you can get better picture when you have better equipments. But looking at the speed of the digital cameras being release to the market today, do you know how much money you need to invest to get all the equipments in your hand?

So, what you need to do is to zoom in to your model when you are practicing portrait photography because wide lens might make your model look "wide" and you will hard time explaining that to them.

Lastly, practice does make digital photography better. Seriously, have you ever fail to be better in things that you do over and over again? You might have spent a lot of time thinking of how you need to pose your model when you started this but once you have build the experience, you will know how to prep your model for the camera with just a single glance.

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I can't get 100% focus in digital photography?

Hi, before I used two different Canon Rebel XTs with different lenses. And Now I use a canon 30D. I can not get 100% focus with group shots. I also have a hard time landescape.. basically anything but close portraits. Why is this happening. How can I fix it?

Sounds like a depth of field problem if some parts are sharp and others out of focus
It could be you are becoming more critical of your own work, a good thing.

Try using a smaller aperture.

Lens performance also trends to drop off towards the outer edges.

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