Photography Basics for Beginner Photographers

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Starting with professional photography seems a little overwhelming sometimes. Taking your first DSLR and trying to understand it feels difficult, but trust me that is not a thing you should worry the most. The struggle for me was not to learn using the camera as a beginner photographer, it started later. My photographs never looked professional and I use to wonder why. And I found out that there are some basic technicalities that need to learn. So in this article, I am going to help you understand the basics of photography that every aspiring professional photographer should know.     Exposure Triangle   Exposer triangle has 2 words ‘Exposer’ and ‘Triangle.’ Exposer means how much light is reaching your camera sensor and the triangle shows us the 3 camera settings which we can use to control the amount of light reaching there. Only 2 of the 3 camera settings can control the actual light which are  Shutter Speed and Aperture. The third camera setting I ca...
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6 dramatic one light setups for portrait photography

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If you have only one light in your kit and if you think that it is not enough for taking dramatic portraits, well here are 6 one light setups for shooting dramatic portraits. Here you will know that there are many things you can do with only one light and generate some great portraits for your portfolio.

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1)    Flat Light


In this light set up the light is directly In front of the model. There is not much shadow play in this setup. We get a flat image by using this but it is the starting point of one light setups.


2)    Paramount/ butterfly lighting

 

This setup is like Flat light the only difference here is that the light is moved 45° above the model’s face. Just by doing this, you can achieve a great difference in the results. A butterfly-like structure is obtained beneath the nose with a shadow.


3)    Loop Lighting

 

We just have to make a little tweak to Paramount lighting to achieve this look. The light is moved 20° - 30° right/left of the model and voila, you got loop light.


4)    Rembrandt Lighting

 

This is the most popular lighting setup. It is achieved by moving the light 45° - 50° right/left of the model.


5)    Split Lighting

 

Don’t you like those portraits with only one side of the model’s face lit? Well, it is not that hard to achieve, just move the light directly 90° away from the model’s nose I.e. exactly on one side of the face right/left.


6) Top-Down Lighting

 

This is not often used for a portrait but you can get dramatic portraits with this. For this, you have to place your light above the model and face it down to the floor.

 

Final word

Using a soft and diffused light source is beneficial while using these setups and to fill in shadows you can reflect the light by a reflector or a white piece of cardboard. Of course, if you have some new ideas add them in the comment section below, I would love to hear them.

 

 

 

 


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