Light painting isn’t just about what you are illuminating. It’s also about shadows. Embrace the flexibility of handheld light painting through the art of shadows. What is light painting? The term is often used loosely to describe any addition of light to a night photograph. Really, though, light painting is
Radiant Photo addresses dynamic range well with their instantaneous edit. However, it also allows you to refine it easily and to your liking. Let’s have a look. What is Radiant Photo? Radiant Photo states that it was created by photographers for photographers. It’s an easy-to-use editor that runs as stand-alone
Whether you use it in-camera or in your post-processing software, you ultimately will come across a set of mountains that help to describe the pixel distribution by the brightness of your image. This mountainous graphic is known as a histogram. What the “mountains” mean Histograms in Lightroom and Adobe’s Camera
This past couple of weeks, I’ve been grabbing my phone and capturing the shadows I see in and around my home. Why? Practice seeing Just by choosing one topic, in this case, shadows, you’ll become much more aware of them. This is very helpful in your photography. For instance, if
RelightAI is one of the new features in Luminar Neo. Using it to help recover shadows and fix lighting in your landscapes is quite simple. I used Luminar Neo as a plug-in from Lightroom Classic. The images in this article are otherwise unedited (so forgive the dust spots). Lifting shadows
Black and white seemed much easier to SEE in when I used to photograph with film. Why? Because you knew it was just that simple. Black. White. There was no option for using the color version, no editing to create the color version (not without a lot of work anyway).
Creating high key light is making sure there is enough light on your background so it is pure white, with no shadows. This can be done using strobes or LEDs or a mixture of both types of light. There are several ways to do this. My favorite way to accomplish high
When I went to Ireland a few years back, I was simply amazed at some of the views I was able to see. But at the time, I was using a new camera that I wasn’t totally familiar with — the Panasonic Lumix GH5 — and I had limited time
Arizona PPA hosted its convention in the beginning of February. I was attending and my friend Tim Meyer was speaking, so I thought I’d grab a shot of him in action. The lighting situation was as tough as it gets. There was no light on the speaker and the screens
When shooting in the hot sun, you will often run across situations where you have a lot of shadows on your subject. To get around this, try using a fill flash. Simply connect your speedlight to your camera and start shooting. For a more balanced, diffused light, use a modifier
When you’re shooting on-location, it can sometimes be challenging to control the light and shadows in a scene. At a recent food shoot, I used a white card to help to brighten the shadows that were visible around the pizza, pepperoni tomatoes and basil. You can pick one up really
If you want to set the white point and black point in your photos with precision, you’ll want to take advantage of the detailed clipping preview option in Lightroom. Go beyond the clipping display you can enable from the histogram, with this quick tip that will help improve the accuracy
