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Artificial Lighting Can Duplicate
Most Natural Light Situations For
Close-up Photographs
By: Carl ChesalEver wonder how the photography pros seem to get those perfect close-ups of flowers, a face or an otherwise shaded object?
The photographers world is one of perfecting an art form. It's about capturing the subject in the proper light. It is not about delivering a real-life image. It's about capturing impactful color, texture and shape when engaging the camera shutter. The photographers craft is image media art.
On your next field trip to the park or on a hike into the interior of a forest, take your flash unit and an off camera shoe cord. The shoe cord is usually a curly flash extension cord that connects your camera flash shoe to your flash unit and allows you to hold the flash unit up to 3 feet away from your camera. Hold the flash unit to the right or to the left of your subject. Hold it high and over the top of your subject or, even have the light source come from below or behind your subject. Your flash can be positioned anywhere in a virtual 3 foot sphere around your camera. This provides you countless number of ways to simulate light and shadow for your close-up, still and portrait photography.
Bring along a friend. Have them hold a flash reflector, a white cloth or a reflective surface (like the one used in car windshields to reduce direct sunlight and heat buildup). Use this sun reflective surface with existing sunlight or your off camera flash. Now you have multiplied your possibilities for soft or diffused lighting for your images.Create your own sun for those close-ups, stills and portraits. Just bring your:
1) Flash unit
2) Off Camera Shoe Cord
3) Reflective Surface for diffused lighting
4) A Friend
You no longer need to wait for that 'right light' to capture an awesome photographic image. Experiment with artificial light and you will be delighted with the results. Here Comes Your Sun.
You can check out some close up flash photos at www.flickr.com by searching on Close-Up Flash Photography or at: www.flickr.com/photos/photobites/sets/72157594320547009
Carl Chesal is a business and channel development consultant, trainer, photographer, and avid snowmobiler. He operates BizFare Enterprise Inc, Foursight Marketing and Consulting, and Foursight Photography, which provide business, marketing, and internet marketing consulting services. Carl with wife, Janet, also operate a number of
e-commerce web-sites:
MyLeatherExpressions.com,
CoolComfortWear.com,
PewterExpressions.com,
HomeAndBodyHowTo.com,
ExqusiteJewelryDesign.com
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