by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 20, 2015 | Photography Techniques
Part 4: Understanding Lighting Direction Lighting direction is about the position of light source in relation to the subject. The scene and the photograph completely changes as the lighting direction changes i.e. the source of light is moved around the subject. We...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 9, 2015 | Photography Techniques
Part 3: Understanding Lighting Contrast Lighting size is the most important factor for lighting contrast, which in turn has an impact on tonal contrast, form and texture. Lighting size is pretty important and consequently requires a detailed discussion. The fact that...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 8, 2015 | Photography Techniques
Part 2:Understanding Lighting Color Lighting contrast is the topic of the third part in this series on photographic lighting. A light source has high lighting contrast if all of its rays strikes the subject at nearly the same angle. A good example is direct sunlight...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 7, 2015 | Photography Techniques
Part 1: Understanding Lighting Brightness Understanding lighting color is realizing the fundamental difference between the way the human eye and the camera perceives color. The eye can detect a very slight change in the color mixture, but the brain adjusts for this...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 7, 2015 | Photography Techniques
The word photography means, writing with light. Light is the raw material for any photograph and we want to understand how it works so we can take better photographs. We start this series with Understanding Lighting Brightness. The fundamental quality of light is its...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 17, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Contre Jour is French for “against daylight”. We are always wowed by the flattering into the sun shot of a beautiful model. Indeed contre jour shots can be exciting opportunities to create high impact images. It can be somewhat challenging though. So here...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 14, 2014 | Photo Composition
In a photograph, positive space is the space occupied by the main subject of interest. It is where we see form, texture, color etc. A lot of times, the rest of frame could be empty space – nearly featureless. That is the negative space. It is important to know how to...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 25, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Post-visualization is the idea behind building an image from multiple images. This idea could be the result of an emotional experience just like pre-visualization is. However this experience is triggered as the photographer is sifting through her images long after...
