Lighting Techniques

I’d tackled the use of polarizing filters once before. It was a long time ago, and I was using flash for all my macro shots. That’s why I published a …

Long ago I read an article by master John Hallmen whose original Swedish title was “Att tämja blixten.” It meant “taming the light” and contained many tips on using flash. …

We’re in the dead of winter. Winter brings to mind wind, snow, and storms, but this year Istanbul is having a mild and dry winter. While that’s bad news environmentally, …

Spring is here; macro season is open. The nice weather, flowers, and bugs we dreamed of all winter are waiting for us outside. But this time, instead of grabbing the …

Ever since I started taking photos I’d been curious about polarizing filters, yet for some reason I kept them outside my area of interest for a very long time. Even …

At the time I wrote this, I’d been happily following natural-light, flash-free work for a long while. Out of a bit of laziness, I hadn’t tried it myself yet. My …

The excitement you feel when doing anything for the first time is upon us today. We’re about to try, for the first time, a flash-free, open-air “focus stacking” session we’ve …

In an earlier article I explained how important flash usage is in macro photography. Now I’m going to write the exact opposite and praise shooting macro without flash. Rather than …