Category Archives: Lighting

I know it’s late but it’s gonna be worth it. If you look closely at the image below you may see what you think is a dog’s face. No its not Photoshopped at all. That is a real flower and that is really the stigma. It may look like a dog but it’s a flower. [...]

In this month’s issue of Photoshop User magazine (official magazine of the NAPP – National Association of Photoshop Professionals) there is an article on ‘The blue Hour’, that time of day that is just after sunset or just before sunrise where the sky is not black, but not the full light blue of day either. [...]

Last week I wrote about capturing electric lights at night and some effects you can do in camera. But what about elusive light? What is elusive light? I covered some elusive light when I wrote about long exposure times and capturing the light that is there but we can barely perceive. What about very fast, [...]

Let me first apologize for being late with this post. Blame it on the dentist and the root canal. I am. Now that I am feeling a bit better and can actually eat food to keep up enough strength to type, I thought we could continue our discussion on light, long exposures and what you [...]

I have heard so many photographers say, “there’s not enough light here for a shot.” WRONG! Even on the darkest of nights light is everywhere. Now is there enough light for a short exposure of 1/60th second or less? (That is about the limit of a hand held shot even with VR (vibration reduction) lenses [...]