Comments on: 9 Lighting Types to Harness & Improve Your Photography

By: George Kravis

George Kravis — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:28:54 +0000

Good information and demonstration pictures. I find that when I come upon a unique lighting situation, of which I’m unsure, it is best to limit the exposure metering mode to “center weighted” or “partial metering”. Then I aim the selected AF point at the area of desired lighting, depress the shutter half way and recompose before taking the picture. In addition, I often set auto exposure bracketing for one or more stops plus and minus. This gives me a chance at getting the best overall exposure while capturing that special lighting before it’s lost.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:38:08 +0000

Great article. Is there any place that tells how to meter for these different types of lighting? I’m talking about when shooting Manual or in Manual mode on DSLR.

Thanks!!

By: Jeff & Candace Painter

Jeff & Candace Painter — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:12:04 +0000

BEAUTIFUL!!! We also like to “paint with light” I really enjoy all of the updates and info on this entry. Playing with the camera is fun!! It’s even cooler when the pictures turn out like those!

By: William

William — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:25:29 +0000

Brilliant article and great photos.

By: Maria Sabala

Maria Sabala — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:13:56 +0000

Thanks for this article. It’s nice to have a sort of label to attach to each type of lighting. Makes it easier to look out for these specific types of lighting. Great photos to illustrate, too!

By: Goldengoose

Goldengoose — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:21:45 +0000

Great Article, as an up coming photograhper, these too the point, cover the basics articles are fantastic info for people like me. Not to indepth that we can’t understand but enough to get us going and wanting more ;)

thanks

By: only1cinn

only1cinn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:04:33 +0000

love this post…a good reminder that it is really all about lighting…to add that perfect effect to your pics.

I’m a newbie..and need to play with the settings on my camera to adjust for each lighting situation…

Thanks for sharing this! :)

By: david

david — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:57:48 +0000

great article … interesting to see that you have named the different lighting types. since natural lighting is so hard to control, i think it’s important to make the most of the lighting and use it to the best effect.

you’ve illustrated that well in this article.

cheers

david
http://www.davidsmeaton.com

By: michael

michael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:52:37 +0000

Thanks for the ideas. I feel master lighting and you will have mastered photography. Still working on it though. :)

By: Jim Goldstein

Jim Goldstein — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:57:14 +0000

Thanks everyone for reading the article and taking the time to reply.

@My Camera World nice article Niels

@Klaidas great minds think a like. I noted the Strobist site under “Artificial Lighting”

@D.T. North Glad the article was of use for you :)

@Six Pixels I think there is room for interpretation, but I would consider “candle light” “ambient light”. It would be nearly impossible for me to give you exposure information for each lighting situation. It’s not a blanket setting for each lighting condition as each lighting condition is unique. I’ll look up some of my EXIF information as I have time and update the article with it. I know one image is a film photo so there will be no EXIF data for that.

@taryn see my note to Six Pixels above.

@xlt glad you liked the article (though no one knows it all ;)

@PRH Thanks. Less the frame/watermark the only post-production done on these was to color correct the photos with a Curves adjustment, a contrast adjustment and a minor saturation adjustment. All of these images were exposed properly at the time of capture.