Lighting and Portraits

[damonb]

An admitted weakness of mine, because I am an amateur that doesn't shoot as often as I would like , surrounds two particular areas of photography: Lighting (Flash) and Portraits. Are there any solid resources (blogs, etc.) or books community members would recommend on these topics?

 

[Buckster]

Lighting--> Strobist

Portraits--> http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/professional-gallery/20071-hot-tips-portrait-photography.html

:thumbup:

 

[damonb]

Thanks. I've heard of Strobist before & will check it out.

 

[KmH]

Light: Science and Magic. An Introduction To Photographic Lighting. By Fil Hunter. The basic photographic lighting primer.

The first 1/2 is about general lighting the 2nd half deals with portrait lighting.

 

[Big Mike]

They key to good portraits, is good lighting.

 

[KmH]

The minimalist approach to location lighting the Strobist website promotes has it's pluses. Be aware, low cost isn't necessarily one of them.