Better Available Light Digital Photography : How to Make the Most of Your Night and Low-light Shots

26 Better Available Light Digital Photography Flash in the pan Bigger used to mean better in terms of the output from studio fl ...

What is available light? 27 many dedicated hot-shoe-mounted speedlights have diffusers built into their heads and provide a zoom ...

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2 Basic exposure In the good old days of photography, determination of exposure used to be achieved by a combination of hard pra ...

30 Better Available Light Digital Photography Photographs of this beautiful arch taken during every season of the year have been ...

Basic exposure 31 The age of aquarius Photographically, we’re in an age of enlightenment (pun intended). Whether you’re a fi lm ...

32 Better Available Light Digital Photography Bee ready—always take your camera with you. These beekeepers were hired to move a ...

Basic exposure 33 You have only one chance to get it right. That’s the reality in the world of photojournalism and fast-moving a ...

34 Better Available Light Digital Photography Shooting through trees provides an exposure challenge. The elegant fi ve-star Broa ...

Basic exposure 35 A few minutes later, Barry took “the money shot” for the Colorado Avid Golfer story, using that Golden Hour li ...

36 Better Available Light Digital Photography Barry’s trademark is “storytelling with a camera,” and his long career as a photoj ...

Basic exposure 37 Light and color Light is made up of all colors in the spectrum. We see the color in objects because as the lig ...

38 Better Available Light Digital Photography At a destination wedding, Barry was convinced that the recep- tion photographs wer ...

Basic exposure 39 speaker onstage in spotlight is a good example of when this type of measurement is useful. Generally, a spotli ...

40 Better Available Light Digital Photography Is there really a perfect exposure? Showing a photograph to a group of ten photogr ...

Basic exposure 41 easy to spot. Again, just because you’ve got blinkies doesn’t mean the image is unacceptable. The bottom line ...

42 Better Available Light Digital Photography The perfect exposure Why is it necessary to achieve this degree of exposure accura ...

Basic exposure 43 looking at the eyes of the subjects for the “catch light.” A per- son’s eye will refl ect the light source use ...

44 Better Available Light Digital Photography The wall of windows in the back- ground provided lots of soft, bright sidelight fo ...

Basic exposure 45 The same light coupled with the light-colored room divider on the right made this available light photograph p ...