New: Multicultural Wedding Photography Lighting Guide

New: Multicultural Wedding Photography Lighting Guide
Street Style Photography (Video)
Interesting Photo of the Day: Nature’s Ice Sculptures
Advanced Reflector Techniques for Outdoor Photography (Video)

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:48 PM PDT

Unlike portrait photography where you have the luxury of time, wedding day photography is fast-paced and unforgiving to beginners as there is only one chance to get it right. This new in-depth guide is designed to help wedding photographers grasp the various possibilities of on-location lighting at wedding ceremonies & receptions of various cultures. We reached out to the publisher who agreed to give our readers 30% off until next Tuesday, simply use the voucher code PICTURE30 at checkout. Now available here: Multicultural Wedding Photography Lighting

New Release: Multicultural Wedding Photography Lighting (Click to Learn More)

Wedding photography lighting has two main goals, to provide sufficient exposure and to create depth and definition in the subjects.

Some of the Many Topics Covered (63 Pages):

Learn how to use multiple speedlights positioned strategically at Indian weddings, Chinese tea ceremonies and Christian weddings.
Discover why speedlights bring a new dimension to wedding lighting at plain-looking venues.
Work with the videographer's lights instead of fighting them.
Harness the ballroom spotlight to your advantage.
Get insights into how wedding day bridal portraits are created very quickly and easily.
Work with lighting for indoor, semi-outdoor and outdoor wedding venues confidently.
React quickly and effectively to unplanned changes in reception venue lighting.
29 lighting diagrams to show placement of lights and other factors that affect your outcome.

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“The better your grasp of lighting techniques, the faster you will be able to set up quickly and in time to capture the right moments when they happen.” -Author Andy Lim

How to Get a Discounted Copy This Week:

Remember to use the voucher code PICTURE30 with either option to get 30% off (ends October 8).

Multicultural Wedding Photography Lighting Guide – New!
Also comes in The Complete SimpleSLR Photography eBook Collection – 50% Savings

The guide comes in PDF format that can be read on computers, phones and most tablet computers. It also carries a 60 day guarantee, if you are not satisfied with any part of the book just let them know and they will give you a full refund so there is no risk in trying it.

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Street Style Photography (Video)

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Fashion Week is a bi-annual event held in London and sits alongside New York, Milan, and Paris as one of the “Big Four” fashion weeks. During this time, designers and fashion houses alike show off their newest clothing, and this is were you’ll meet Getty Images photographer Kirstin Sinclair. She takes part in “street style” photography where she photographs many of the men and women who sport designer clothes in their own personal way. The difference between Sinclair’s street style and a large scale fashion shoot is that street style doesn’t involve models, hours of posing, and extreme post-production. Street style is about capturing people in their natural state and how they interpret designer clothing:

Tips on Photographing People on the Street:

Always Ask Permission – Most people are not fond of being photographed when they’re unaware of it, and you never know how they may react. Plus, when you ask for permission, you can often get them to pose for you for a more interesting photograph.

Be Friendly – You’ll be surprised at how positive people can react when you ask to take their photograph, but they can quickly be turned off by a rude or shy photographer. Make small talk. Be nice.

Look for Color and Texture – Keep your eyes peeled for interesting, unusual, or well-suited clothing on people. Color, texture, shape, design, and style can all have an impact on a person’s photographed personality.

Collect Contact Information – If you plan on selling your images, always collect contact information from the people you shoot so that you may have them sign a model release form. Many companies and publication won’t use photos of people unless this form has been signed. Plus, you may want to contact them to give them copies or inform them that a photo of them has been published.

Sinclair says she loves meeting people from all over the world and capturing them in their natural state

“It’s a more obtainable way of showing designers’ clothing in a way that the public can respond to where they feel that they can actually, potentially, re-create the look themselves as opposed to when they see shoots with models where they feel they don’t have the right figure or the right look.”

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Nature’s Ice Sculptures

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:06 PM PDT

Nature photography is a versatile genre. You’ll see images that are beautiful or bizarre, frightening or fascinating. Today’s featured photo was taken on the shores of Lake Ontario in Canada and shows some unusual ice formations. A period of harsh winter weather caused the lake water to splash up on some overhanging trees, which froze into strange ice forms that cling to the branches:

Masses of icicles covering trees at Lake Ontario (Via Imgur, Click for Larger Size)

The photo, entitled “Tree of Ice,” was captured by Timothy Corbin, a professional photographer based in East Ontario, Canada.

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Advanced Reflector Techniques for Outdoor Photography (Video)

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:32 AM PDT

You’ve probably heard, at some point, someone refer to the “Golden Hour” of photography. There are actually two Golden Hours: the first and last hours of sunlight each day. These are the ideal times to shoot outside, because the sun is low, glowing red or orange or yellow, and it’s casting shadows that add depth to your pictures. But what about all those other hours in a day, when the sun is high in the sky and everything is bathed in a flat, colorless wash of light? It seems a shame to waste all that free light, and once you know how to work with reflectors, you won’t have to:

As you can tell from this video, there’s a lot of improvisation going on here. This is largely because the sun is constantly moving throughout the sky (ease off, Copernicus, I know that’s not technically true). You’ve got to keep up with it by moving the reflectors around to account for the sun’s changing position, while also keeping in mind where you want the light to hit your subject. But here are a few guidelines to keep in mind.

It may seem counterintuitive, but use the sun as backlight. This keeps the background relatively darker, and produces a nice halo effect around your subject.
Shoot when the sun is higher in the sky, so it’s getting into the frame of your shot.
Figure out the right exposure settings before you start working with the reflectors.
Use a translucent light panel above your subject, using something like Photoflex’s LightReach Plus, to soften the ambient light. This keeps the light from flooding the scene and washing out the shot.
Place a reflector off to the side to bounce the light back onto your subject. Here, they use a 39-inch gold-white one so that it casts a warm glow on the scene. Make sure the reflector isn’t pointed directly at your model; having the center of it pointed just off your subject and reflecting off its edges work best.
You can use another soft white reflector on the opposite side of the first one, to slightly reduce shadows (and therefore contrast).
Remember: you can make drastic changes to the way your scene looks just by changing the lens.

With the right equipment and a little know-how, you can easily transform most outdoor shoots into the kind of controlled environment that any studio provides. And outfitting yourself with some reflectors is much more cost effective than lighting up a studio.

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