Lighting Photography Tutorial
I need to get some sites with reference to posing, lighting for photography.?
i am learning photography. can you please suggest some sites where i can get information about photography, tutorials and most importantly, reference pictures
Here are some of my bookmarks:
Fred Miranda – great discussions and reviews. Check out the People Photography forum for reference pictures – there are some awesome amateurs and pros that post there regularly
http://www.fredmiranda.com/
Strobist – great for lighting:
http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/
You asked about posing – here are the “35 Rules of Portraits”:
http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/rules.html
Click on the “Table of Contents” at the top of the page for other great tutorials including lighting.
If you’re doing digital portraits, you may start doing some post-processing with various sw programs, like Photoshop Elements. Here’s a page on Sharpening:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/11242.html
Good Luck!!
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