Lighting

Many people like to experiment with the macro settings on their digital cameras, but ultimately give up on their efforts when the results are blurry and poorly lit. Fortunately, with just a bit of effort and some inexpensive equipment, macro photography can be successfully accomplished.

The key to good macro photography is lighting, and unfortunately most on board flash units will not do the trick, nor will traditional flashes mounted to the flash shoe, the bracket where a larger flash unit can be inserted into the camera body.

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Photography is one of the most important arts known since the previous century. Experts would define it as the art of capturing or recording light. It doesn’t get any plainer than that. When you press the “shoot” button and the light flashes, you just captured a moment—in that case, the light of that moment. However, capturing light on film or digital memory is not as easy as you might have thought. Photography is like an exact art that minor changes can have a profound effect on the outcome. One of the most common mistakes is shooting pictures with low amounts of light exposure, which causes less than impressive results.

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Many photographers doing studio photography use a soft box as an alternative to an umbrella to diffuse lighting.  Many of the lighting principles when using an umbrella as a light diffuser apply when using a soft box in illuminating objects.  However, it usually requires a more powerful light source than umbrella or direct lighting.  As a powerful lighting modifier, a soft box allows large amounts of light to be cast but with very few resulting shadows.

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Aside from many photographers, graphic artists and designers also use colored filters to apply their desired tones to their photographers.  The use of filters can help highlight and dramatize a photograph.  The most commonly used filters are the cooling filters and the warming filters.  The warm filters are usually used to achieve warm orange tones while cooling filters are used for cool blue tones.

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You may think that using a lightbox is a pretty straightforward process but to tell you frankly, there is quite a big difference between just using a lightbox and clicking away and using a lightbox to come up with some awesome product shots. If you are eager to uncover the secrets of using a lightbox to capture perfect product shots every time you push your shutter release button, then you really need to read today’s post from beginning to end!

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