The recipe for balancing natural light with flash
Vanelli
Balancing natural light with flash isn’t complicated — once you have the ingredients and know the recipe!
Balancing light
Creating portraits on location: Natural or flash?
Bobbi Lane
The photographer’s best tool is light, and there are many choices. Light is used to mold, define, describe and set the mood of a portrait, so knowing how to recognize the light or control it, is of ultimate importance to the artist. I’m both a natural light, or “Portraits Unplugged”
Dragging the Shutter Part Two: Shake, Spin and Zoom
Bobbi Lane
Dragging the Shutter, as we learned in Part One, is a tricky technique where you light the subject with your flash, and then use a slow shutter speed to pull in the background light. All the basic how-to information on how to balance light to make it “correct” is laid
Dragging the Shutter Part One: The Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Flash and Ambient Light
Bobbi Lane
Dragging the shutter is a technique that balances the exposure of strobe and ambient light sources in one photo. For example: taking a photo of someone outside at night by using a portable flash and also capturing the city lights in the background. Balancing Strobes and Ambient Light Strobes put
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