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

Great photographers take it a step farther: call it instinct, experience, knowl- edge, or all the above, but some photographers ...

hand out in front of that softbox. Can you see the soft nature of the light? Now, from the same distance, do it with a 7-inch re ...

passion when you find those shadows, and you’ll feel the exhilaration when you capture that image. The animals will find the lig ...

O 2. WHITE BALANCE. O ur digital cameras contain white balance software that can help us neu- tralize the color casts that resul ...

The bottom line is, great still photographers understand that custom or manual white balance can be used to produce results that ...

warmth. This balancing of colors worked great for the illuminated subject, but any background or foreground not illuminated by t ...

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Like most photographers, I don’t want to carry more photographic equipment than I have to when I am shooting on location. The so ...

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ever area the flash doesn’t illuminate will turn some shade of blue, depending on the amount of ambient light. For example, if I ...

Playboy Model Kelly M. was photographed at an infinity-edge swimming pool, located at one of my favorite locations in the U.S. V ...

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JPEG) mode. In the RAW mode, using the camera’s conversion software or image-editing software like Adobe Lightroom, you can twea ...

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through a plastic gel or colored filter. One of my favorite effects is placing a green gel in front of the flash so that the sky ...

nique to create “blue moonlight” or a nighttime ef- fect during the daytime. I can do just the opposite by white balancing to da ...

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tanners. The disadvantage to this method is that most models don’t do a great job of uniformly applying the liquid tan, thus the ...

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By simply setting my white balance to 6000K, I’ve tricked my camera into believing that my light source is cooler than the tradi ...