Post Processing: The Orton Effect
The Orton effect is a interesting way to add some jazz to your photos during post processing. Craig Ferguson, a Taiwan-based photographer, posted a tutorial on his site: (the) Orton Effect For Digital Darkrooms.
The Orton effect is a interesting way to add some jazz to your photos during post processing. Craig Ferguson, a Taiwan-based photographer, posted a tutorial on his site: (the) Orton Effect For Digital Darkrooms.
In this series of articles we’ll take a look at the nuts and bolts of moving your flash off the camera. There are several ways to trigger your flash once you move it off the camera. These can be summed up simply: Wired solutions and wireless solutions.
The Gulf Photo Plus 2010 Shoot-out from Gulf Photo Plus. What do you get when you combine David Hobby, Zack Arias and Joey Laurence, two models, an audience full of people and a time limit to produce final photographs? Chaos, humor, and an unconventional lesson from the masters of lighting. The recent “Shoot-out” at Gulf…
This is a quick, down-and-dirty trick I learn at a recent Strobist meet-up. You can soften light from a flash in a number of ways: A soft box, shoot-through umbrella, etc. Have you ever considered using the white inner ring of a 5-in-1 reflector? I never had, but the results are fantastic. The above image…
Beyond cameras, lenses and assorted gear, photography needs one thing: Light. A simple truth: If you don’t have light you don’t get photographs. Learning and mastering light is a life long endeavor for a photographer. How do you harness it? Shape it? Sculpt it?
Seeing the Light: Making the most of Available Light and Minimal Equipment, an ebook by travel photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich, is detailed resource for photographers, explaining the mysteries of light and how to best use it. Kanashkevich is a minimalist. As a travel photographer working in remote locales he uses only what he can carry.
While the minimalist approach has drawbacks, says Kanashkevich in his introduction, “There has always been a tremendous amount of creative opportunities even without artificial light, so when you use something as simple as a reflector in combination with sunlight or a single flash with light from a fire or a light bulb, our creative opportunities multiply.“
Seeing the light has three sections: Flash, Reflector Light, and Natural Light. Each section starts with an explanation of the gear Kanashkevich uses. His flash section gear list includes a flash, a trigger, a softbox, and color gels. Following a brief introduction to flash settings, exposure, and balancing ambient and artificial light, the flash section uses a series of photographs and lighting diagrams to explain using flash with and without ambient light, indoor and outdoors, as well as working with light bulbs and fires.