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Photography Tips – the light

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„It’s all about the light“ –
Light is the most important element when it comes to photography 

 

 

 

At my first trainee-ship at a photograph, the photograph asked me: „what is the most elementary element of photography. I had no idea, but today I know it. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT. Without light, you can’t make a picture. If you can set a professional light set up than you can make great pictures with the cheapest camera and the really hard to learn in photography is not to understand the camera, it’s to control the light. If I got too much light I will overexpose pictures, if I have only one hard light I will get shadows of black. With too less light I get a blurry picture because the exposure time is too long or the picture gets noisy because of the ISO. Well about the Topic light you can write a lot of books, but this tutorial is for beginners and I will give some tips for better light set up:

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-right“] Look for shadows

 At the beginning it will be really hard to shoot in the sunlight, because this light is really hard and this makes hard and dark shadows. It can be also great to shoot in the sun, but there for you will need some experience and some more equipment to make good pictures. The picture on the right side is taken in the shadow the light is really soft and we don’t have „black“ shadows.

 

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-right“] Try different source of lights


The natural light is the most popular light, but there are different types of light. For example: the directly sunlight and diffuse light in shadows. You also can try to use light, which is reflected by some building or use the classic Window. With a window you get a frontal light, this light is much better than the sunlight from the top and if you use a white curtain in front of the window you will get a beautiful soft light. You can also try different lamps. The Picture one the right is taken with window light.

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-right“] Sun as backlight

 

One of my favorite settings is sun as back light. But this works only in the early morning or late evening. This light is a hard but really warm light. The difficulty is here; that you will need to use a reflector or flash for your model, if not the sky will look like a white space. With Sun as back light you will also get a stunning lens flare.

 

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-right“] Use a reflector

 

This is really important; on every shooting I have at least 1 person with a reflector with me, because the reflector gives me the possibility to light up the dark shadows. But be carefully with reflector, because the reflector has another light temperature than the other light. It’s not possible to hide all shadows and at the most cases it will be look strange if the reflector light have the same bright as the (sun) light. On the right picture we have the sun as a side-back-light. To make the face brighter we used a reflector at the front.

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XX, Nico Treeman

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Romantica – Photo Story by Christina Key

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Create amazing photo effects with simple household items:

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INSPIRATION TUESDAY // Photography Tips // The Aperture

Hey folks,

Today I start with a series of articles about Photography on our Blog! I will show you at the beginning the basics and after this I will write tips for a blurrier background, for more interesting light. Also I will write about which are the perfect lens for your face (perspective distortion) and at the end I will write a summery and give especially tips for fashion blogger.

This series will have 6 Parts and I will post every INSPIRATION TUESDAY a new one. Stay tuned!

But Know let’s start with part 1:
Basics – Aperture.

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The aperture is a small hole in our lens. You can change the size of the aperture. So the picture gets brighter, if the hole gets bigger or darker if it’s get smaller.

An important side effect is, that if the aperture hole gets bigger, the background and foreground gets blurrier. But my object in the focus stay sharp.

We don’t want an overexposed or underexposed picture, because of that we need numbers to control the aperture. Therefore we have the f-numbers. The numbers are fractions for example: „f/1.4“. But is the picture brighter at „f/1.4“ or „f/5.6“? So if we look at the f-numbers as fractions is „f/1.4“ bigger as „f/5.6“ and also it’s brighter.

 

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If this is to complex for you (like every photograph), you just can skip the „f/“ and just say „aperture 1.4“. Then you just have to remember: the higher the f-number the darker the picture. For example: „5.6“ is darker as „1.4“. Also the background and foreground gets blurrier with a smaller number.

To know how much 1.4 are brighter than 5.6 we need to learn the row of f-numbers. The light gets doubled if you go one number left and halved if we go one step right. The most cameras have numbers between the „whole f-numbers” for example: 1.8.

The f-number row:
1 – 1.4 – 2 – 2.8 – 4 – 5.6 – 8 – 11 – 16 – 22 – 32 – 45 – 64

 

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How much you can open or close the aperture depends on the lens. The name of that property is maximum aperture. The maximum aperture means the smallest f-number of the lens. For example: „f/1.8“.

Summary: The bigger the aperture hole, the smaller the f-number for example: 1.2, the brighter the picture and blurrier the background and foreground. The maximum aperture is the smallest possible f-number of the lens.

 

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Tip: Do you want to test to photography with different f-numbers? Just use the “Aperture value” modus in your camera (Canon Av, Nikon A). So you can choose the aperture and your camera will find the perfect time for a correctly exposure. You can just experiment with different blurry backgrounds without have to check every time the exposure.

 

Caution! A higher f-number is not a guarantee for a sharper picture! If you use a bigger aperture hole you will get diffraction, that means the pictures is getting blurrier with a higher f-number. So for the sharpest picture you shouldn’t choose a higher f-number as the diffraction limit. You can easily find out the limit by searching in Google: [Camera xyz] diffraction limit.

At this point I will not explain what diffraction is. But if you interested in the topic „prefect sharp at pictures“ I will write an article, just let me know in the comments :).
 

 

 

Next tutorial: Basics – Time and ISO
How to show motion in pictures and get the prefect exposure.

Do you like more the automatic mode or manual mode?

XX Nico Treeman