As promised, good studio lighting sites. Using Leon’s wonderful instruction, you can apply these techniques to natural or simple strobe photography. The sun can be used as a key light. Positioning yourself or placing your subject next to a white wall can add fill. Since colored walls will bounce light with the same color cast, you can add some “special effects’ to your photographs. Shade is a great diffuser. Simply changing your position can change your lighting. Go manual settings!!!
Great strobe(Flash) site. Under the heading “First time here”, check out the Lighting 101 section.
General studio lighting tutorials. The prophotofile site is great for “do it yourself” lighting.
My Favorite. Look at both the video section (there are multiple pages of videos) and his blog. The videos are posted from new to old. So, go to page 2 and start with video #1. They do follow a logical sequence.
Very good book on basic exposure. I constantly see it quoted as a good source from master photographers. I have a copy.
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson (Amazon $17.39)
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Thanks Clarence, for your help and encouragement. Also, thanks for the links. I'm definitely a proponent of Strobist.com, the Lighting 101 and Lighting 102 lessons will teach you damn near everything you need to know to get started using off-camera lights. These other sites look great too...lots of information available out there, but that being said, nothing beats going out and experimenting! If anyone has any questions about the stuff we talked about the other day, please ask away, and between all of us in the class, I'm sure the answer can be found.
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