Lighting is one of the topics that many photographers will benefit from learning more about. The word photography comes from the Greek language and means “to draw with light” after all. Creative Live has numerous online classes during the year and for us in the UK the courses are live and free to view from …
Thanks to all the people who entered this tough round of the mini-challenge competition, make sure you check out the latest mini-challenge results table elsewhere on the site to see who is leading this years competition, it’s a two way tie for the lead and just six points covers the top 4 places. Cutting to …
With digital cameras allowing photographer to shoot freely often the toughest job is to be selective when shooting and editing. We’ve all got hard disks full of images that in reality will never see the light of day, the ability to self-edit is a skill that takes a long time to learn. The picture you …
Just seen a message from Calumet and among the various offers, they have a buy-one-get-one-free [B-O-G-O-F] promotion on their umbrella swivel adapters. These adapters go on the end of a light stand and let you use your camera flashes to fire in to or through an umbrella. I have a couple of the similar Manfrotto …
Photoshop – good, bad or ugly? The amount of photoshopping happening to some photos is incredible, with the right skills it’s possible to make the taken pictures (the camera never lies of course) in to something that never happened in front of the lens. Over the years there have been many cases of images questioned …
ImageZ in the Rosebowl Final We’ve only gone and done it, ImageZ is in the finals of the CACC Rosebowl 2011/2012. So first a big thanks to everyone who submitted pictures for the club to use at each round, and to Aussie Allan and several other members who worked to refine the images and make …
Often the key driver of the aperture is the power from the studio lights. Whilst some lights have power settings that can be adjusted over a wide range – 5 or more stops – some only have full, half and quarter power settings or 2-stops. As the studio lights are generally more powerful than the …