The word photography means "drawing with light". Controlling or selecting the light a camera records is essential to all aspects of photographic composition.
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How do you avoid a dim portrait with a bright background and no external flash?
I took a picture once in a beautiful location with an awesome background, and a cool location to get the shot. The problem is, the location of the subject had substantially less light then the ...
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How can one deal with midday light in street photography?
Firstly, of course, photography is all about light, but for doco/street style photography (which is what I like), it's really about being in the right place at the right time.
However, I've been ...
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How do I adjust colour casts between photos taken at different times?
I have several photos of similar subjects on the same background.
As they were taken outside at different times, the lighting conditions are different, and so the colours in the photos aren't ...
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Does the zoom head position of a flash matter when shooting through an umbrella?
It seems like a hotshoe flash's zoom head position might factor in to the lighting pattern when shooting through an umbrella. In the wide beam position, I expect more even light that one is ...
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How can correctly measure light using a built-in camera meter?
Many times I shot photos, but the photo is some times too bright or too dark and the colors are incorrect.
Some times the white on the photo is not the white that I have on background but gray and I ...
