Amateur Photographer

Face lift

Using your own lighting for outdoor portraits gives you the freedom to light your subject from any direction you choose. Suddenly you’re not bound by the direction and quality of the natural light, but instead have the option either to augment it with a gentle fill light, or create an entirely different mood. It lets you combine the best parts of studio and natural-light portraiture. You’re able to light the subject how you like, and

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Amateur Photographer

Amateur Photographer2 min read
Professor Newman On… Information Design
For a period of my career I worked with a professor of information design, Professor Clive Richards. Information Design covers the production of graphics and other visual presentations to best convey information. With some careful choice of represent
Amateur Photographer7 min read
DIGITAL STARS Fifty Quid Quality
Let’s start, not with a camera, but with an image. Look at the picture of the cat on this page. Notice how the eyes, the fur, every whisker, every wisp of hair, are all pin-sharp. And rest assured, the quality is retained when this image is interpola
Amateur Photographer8 min read
Workers Of The World
From 1986-1992, Sebastião Salgado travelled across the globe documenting the end of the first big Industrial Revolution and the demise of manual labour. The result was the classic tome, Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age. The book presente

Related Books & Audiobooks