Light in photography

Photographer John Gress shows examples and how to light for nine types of portrait lighting.

Whether they travel to the edge of the world or capture their craziest dreams, the Instagram photographers invite us on a journey far from our daily life.

Girl holding lantern up to her face in the late evening light. Shot in Latvia.

How photographer Jake Wangner paints faces with his camera incites intrigue, mystery, and passion for the analogue arts.

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Light painting is a popular topic on Flicker and other photo sharing sites in the last couple of years. It is a photographic technique in which a design is created on a photographic image with a so…

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One of the first very important skills I acquired in my Australian Photography course was the ability to breakdown lighting and determine approximate camera settings in images taken by other photographers. If you understand how the direction of light and its degree of diffusion are controlled and how they affect images, it should be easy for you to train yourself to "read"