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Summary: Photographers use strobes and different types of flash to capture various lighting effects during a photo shoot. Learn how to use a digital camera and creative lighting techniques in order to take amazing pictures with tips from a professional photographer in this free video on photography.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and we're going to talk about lighting for digital photography. Now, digital photography has made some pretty amazing advances in the last couple of years in lighting and how a digital chip picks up light. Now, one interesting aspect of lighting for digital photography is strobes or flash and different type of flash is used for digital photography and film photography. So, you really want to pay attention to the flash that you're using and make sure it is digital compatible. The other type of digital lighting that you can use again is natural lighting. Now on your digital camera, there's a light balance setting. There's also might be modes that you can control the way that lighting looks. To me, it's really interesting. They're located on your menu on your digital camera. There's also going to be on most digital cameras type of lighting that you're going to dial in for that you're using that you're photographing in. It could be florescent. It could be flash. It could be natural light. Those are things you really want to pay attention to when you're utilizing your lighting for your digital camera. It's kind of interesting because you can see right away with that screen on the back of your digital camera how the lighting looks. Now, with digital photography lighting, okay I find that certain complexions of people tend to be a little bit more contrasting or tend to be less true to life. That's one thing you really want to pay attention to and maybe the mode that you're photographing in. If you're photographing in a raw mode or high in JPEG, you're going to see certain ways to compensate for that when you edit those images and that is really a direct result of some of the lighting. So, those are some ways that I will utilize digital lighting photography."
eHow Article: Lighting for Digital Photography