Research on photography

Shoot Through Umbrellas

When you need to diffuse your light source, shoot through umbrellas are a good choice. The material used will produce results similar to a soft box this is because it diffuses your lighting source and softening the light that hits your subject.

Reflectors:

Reflectors come in many different colours:

Gold: Gold reflectors to warm up your pictures.
Silver: Silver reflectors can be used to brighten your picture, without affecting the colour of the light.
Black: Black reflectors act in a subtractive manner, removing excess light from your photos

Soft box

Soft boxes to reduce shadows and minimize the overexposure of white items. The closer the soft box sits to the subject, the softer the lighting appears.


Natural light

Natural light comes from the Sun and one positive note on natural light is that there is no batteries needed as each type of natural light has its own qualities such as the deep blues of twilight, moonlight, starlight and window light.

Artificial light

Artificial light is any light that is not natural and depends on an external source of power, like natural light, artificial light can fall under the larger category of existing or available light meaning that it is light you do not bring to or set up for your subject and you might decide to use artificial light for a variety of reason one example is when there is not enough natural light to make an exposure.
Nikon camera

·         Aperture Priority: Allows you to set the aperture value while the camera automatically selects the appropriate shutter speed. Available apertures will vary with the lens in use.

 

·        Shutter Speed Priority: Allows you to set the shutter speed value while the camera automatically selects the appropriate aperture. Shutter speeds range from 1/8,000 to 30 seconds in this mode.

·         Manual: Lets you select both the aperture value and shutter speed, and increases the shutter speed range to include a Bulb setting for exposures longer than 30 seconds.

·         Press 'test' to the start the camera, 1 is the lowest light intensity and 6 is the highest intensity.

·         Shallow of depth is when the foreground and background is different with a different look.

·         The lights are connected with each other through an infra-red called 'godox' which sends a signal to the transmitter from the camera to the lights for it to flash.