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Flash Photography: How To Use A Flash And Make It Look Like You Didn’t Flash is dreaded word among new photographers, and even some with more experience. The flash creates harsh shadows, blows out the highlights, ruins ambient lighting and makes it obvious that you used a flash in

Flash Photography: A Beginner’s Guide To Flash Sync And Flash Modes Flash can be intimidating to new photographers. At best, it’s an unnatural-looking light source, and at worst it destroys the image entirely. Or is it? Flash can actually be one of the most useful tools in photography.

Golden Ratio Photography: How To Balance Your Composition Simply With The Fibonacci Sequence Balance. It’s human nature to crave balance. Achieving the perfect balance between all aspects of your life is hugely important to humans. Balance can be visually appealing as well, which means balance plays a big role

The Beginner’s Guide to Aperture Understanding manual modes is about more than just shooting an image with a good exposure. Each element of the exposure triangle has an effect on more than just how light or dark an image is. Aperture plays a big role in an image, and

Flash Photography: The Beginner’s Guide To Flash Modifiers Hot shoe flashes give photographers some of the flexibility of a studio, wherever they’re shooting. But, studio photographers don’t usually shoot with a bare bulb light source, so why should you shoot bare with your flash? While a lot

Flash Photography: How To Use Manual Flash Mode Just like your DSLR has manual modes, your flash has manual modes too. And just like you need to learn manual modes to take full control over your camera, you’ll need to learn manual flash mode to really take control of

Catchlights: One Simple Trick To Making Portraits Pop That old adage, “the eyes are the window to the soul?” Well, that’s an essential concept in portrait photography, because the most important element to get right is the eyes. That means the eyes should be sharp. That means the eyes