Popular Photography - February 2015 USA
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tTIP: To add a dreamy quality to<br />
a day-for-night scene with moving<br />
water or windblown trees, reduce<br />
the light hitting your sensor by<br />
using an overall neutral-density<br />
filter. This will allow you to set a<br />
long exposure.<br />
Add light<br />
to the dark.<br />
For added drama,<br />
use flash for the foreground<br />
in dark outdoor scenes.<br />
Flash shots of people near the<br />
end of the blue hour, for example,<br />
can be particularly effective. Be<br />
sure to keep the background<br />
exposure dark; for a somewhat<br />
more realistic effect, dial down<br />
your flash unit to – 1 to –2 EV.<br />
tTIP: Simulate the light of the<br />
setting sun (even if there is none)<br />
by putting an amber gel over your<br />
flash head. Keep the camera’s<br />
white balance at daylight.<br />
CATHRYN GALLACHER<br />
(within reason). Use exposure<br />
comp to maintain darkness—and<br />
remember, it works in all modes,<br />
even manual. Don’t worry about<br />
a perfectly centered histogram—it<br />
should, in fact, fall off the cliff in<br />
the shadows—that is, get clipped<br />
on the left side of the graph.<br />
tTIP: Don’t forget about white<br />
balance—set a tungsten WB on<br />
your camera in daylight to simulate<br />
the bluish light of late day<br />
or heavily shaded scenes.<br />
Use day<br />
for night.<br />
This is handheld<br />
night photography<br />
made easy. To make a daytime<br />
scene look like nighttime, simply<br />
underexpose it. We mean seriously<br />
underexpose it—by as much as<br />
four stops. You can make city<br />
scenes more realistic by dodging<br />
highlights into streetlamps or<br />
windows during postproduction<br />
to make them look lit.<br />
FRAME A<br />
SCENE<br />
Cathryn<br />
Gallacher<br />
shot this from<br />
Copenhagen’s<br />
Rundetårn<br />
with a Canon<br />
EOS 5D<br />
Mark III and<br />
24–70mm<br />
f/2.8L Canon<br />
EF lens; 1/100<br />
sec at f/13,<br />
ISO 100.<br />
Use shadow<br />
patterns to<br />
create texture.<br />
A portrait or still<br />
life taken with window light<br />
streaming through open blinds,<br />
for example.“Venetian blind<br />
lighting” became a staple of film<br />
noir in the ’40s and ’50s.<br />
tTIP: Create shadow patterns<br />
with the use of a cuculoris, or<br />
“cookie.” Simply create a panel<br />
with patterns cut out in it, and<br />
place it in front of a studio light.<br />
It’s an easy DIY project.<br />
Define a frame<br />
with darkness.<br />
Use a tunnel, a dark<br />
interior window<br />
frame, or a backlit foreground<br />
landform as a natural framing<br />
device. Be sure to expose for the<br />
scene that’s inside the frame, not<br />
for the frame itself.<br />
tTIP: Use features in dark<br />
shadow to define the planes in<br />
cityscape photography.<br />
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