3 POINT LIGHTING
Three point lighting is often the best way to create a flattering portrait, shoot a great headshot and make an interview on video look professional. Here is the essence of three point lighting:
Key Light – This is your primary light source.
Fill Light – This light adds illumination to the shadow side [...]

I decided to write a little update to last week’s Storyboard post. I realized after posting about making storyboards as a great way to tell a story using a series of photos that I never actually told you how I make them. My bad!
A few people have asked me since that post to [...]

Photographers talk a lot about depth of field, but few non-photographers really understand what it’s all about. In essence, depth of field refers to what’s in focus in front of and behind the subject you are shooting. With a little understanding, you can control what is in focus behind your subject. Why would you want [...]

BEHIND THE LENS: INTERVIEWS WITH TODAY’S PHOTOGRAPHERS
SERENA DAWN BOGGS
Serena Dawn Boggs is a North Carolina-based freelance photographer, specializing in images of children and families. Her work is rich, fun and candy for the eyes. A little yin and yang in her aesthetic, she wows us with contrasty jewel colors and luminous, high-key skin tones. [...]

There are two kinds of hand-held light meters: incident meters and spot meters. An incident meter measures the light falling on a subject, while a spot meter (also called a reflective meter), measures the light reflecting back at you from the subject.

A standard tool in movie making is a fog machine. Fog adds atmosphere to a shot, reduces contrast, softens the image and can create shafts of light.
Fog machines are great for shooting night exteriors because a few small light units can illuminate a large area when fog is present. The light hits [...]

In moviemaking, there is a great prank often played on the newbie on the production crew. More often than not, this is the Production Assistant, fresh out of school, who knows next to nothing about filmmaking. The camera crew calls the PA in with an URGENT errand. “Quick, drive to the [...]

In the September, 2006 issue of Digital Camera Magazine, there was a long article about shooting great pictures at the zoo. I skimmed the article and put it aside for another day, not thinking that I’d be going to the zoo anytime soon. But I was wrong. While up in Washington [...]