Rolando Gomez. Rolando Gomez's Lighting for Glamour Photography: Techniques for Digital Photographers. 2010

Placing a model in something as simple as a doorway will help separate your model from the background, as doorways are (obviousl ...

Beauty and the Nude” workshops in the Virgin Is- lands, you’ll see I bring two of these bad-boy Octa Sunhazes with me for all to ...

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Portability. Some ring-flash units have a handle so you can move freely with it while shooting. This allows you to walk, in an a ...

Power.The ring flash should have a 1200 watt-second or more power out- put so you can use it outdoors to overpower the sun at a ...

power is very important. If your ring flash cannot provide at least an f/16 at ISO 100 power output at 12 feet or more, you’re p ...

Okay, I’m kidding. I’m not trying to be caustic, but remember, you’re plan- ning on having a model in front of that unit. Chance ...

Flash Duration.The shorter the flash duration, the better. This is very im- portant when shooting outdoors. Durations of^1 / 130 ...

Variable Output.Variable flash output is important. Can you adjust your ring flash within^1 / 3 to^1 / 10 of an f-stop without r ...

with great light modifiers, a fluorescent light setup or a great reflector, I’ll use the natural light I see before I dig around ...

frigerator, the car, the sand, the snow—and if you have to use an on-camera flash, bounce it off a neutral, reflective surface. ...

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Though the sun is large, its distance from Earth makes it a specular, pin- point light source. Unfiltered natural light is too h ...

panel on a softbox. Not only are the clouds closer in distance to us than the sun, but the shadows soften and light becomes more ...

though the light quality itself is dependent on how the light arrived there. Ba- sically, in open shade, you can have some direc ...

green cast. If you use a California Sunbounce to fill your subject with a more natural, crisper light, readjust your white balan ...

Normally your main light source would be positioned in front of and above the subject at a 45 degree angle, and the fill light w ...

or diamond-shaped highlight on the check of the shadow side of the face, just beneath the eye and next to the nose. This highlig ...

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