Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Pentax K-5

Digital Photo Tips – A Basic Introduction to Using Natural Light

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:53 PM PST

There is an old adage that says if the camera is the photographer’s brush then light is their paint. You must choose your light as determined as the artist chooses their paint. This description will furnish basic facts and discuss the uses of sunlight in digital photography. With a good understanding, you will ‘see’ light in a new way and use it to create good images.

Can you feel the mood of the light you are in now? Is it brash and captivating at noon? Or is it misty and gloomy advent though the rain? Does moonlight give you a sense of eerie mystery? All light, natural and artificial, has confident characteristics.

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All light has intensity. That simply means it has a measurable level of brightness. A strobe gives off a huge number of light for a short length but relatively speaking is still not very intense. Because light intensity diminishes with distance, this should be kept in mind.

All light has a direction from which it originated. Direction may be clearly defined due to a particular source. Using multiple sources or diffusion, decreases the apparent direction or may eliminate it altogether.

All light has color. The color of light depends on two things, the source of it’s origin and the materials it passes through. Fluorescent, incandescent, electronic flashes and sun light all have dissimilar color mixes. Sun light is supplementary dependent on the time of day and atmospheric conditions.

Here’s a minuscule landscape photography tip to think about next time you are traveling. Try visiting the site you want to shoot while off hours to avoid the crowds ending up in your pictures. If that will not work, try being the first one admitted. You can get a lot done before the crowds show up. If there are people around, be sick person and ready to shoot when there isn’t anyone in the frame.

Digital Photo Tips – A Basic Introduction to Using Natural Light

Thanks To : Canon S95 Camera

Posted by Kenny E. Ross at 9:15 AM

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