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If you agree that lighting is one of the key elements that differentiate a good photograph from a snapshot, it helps to understand how to achieve proper exposure.

I hope to write more posts like this one where I look at some of the specific lighting tools I’m using in my home-based studio. Today’s it’s about one of my favorites, the umbrella…

I have always believed that a photograph is usually all about lighting but infrared photography is all about capturing images using invisible light, which is why comparisons to traditional photography are difficult.

When making an outdoor portrait, I like to use Incident metering because it reads the intensity of light falling on the subject, rather than what’s reflected by it.

Digital cameras do not have a true ISO speed, which is why you’ll sometimes see the term “ISO Equivalent” tossed around in some DSLR or mirrorless camera’s specifications. Over the years camera manufacturers have developed technologies that make their camera’s imaging sensors respond to light in a manner similar to how film responds to that same amount of light

Latitude is the number of stops that a specific film stock can be overexposed or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result. Typically slide (transparency) film has less latitude, while negative film has more.