aleone63 Loc: Some place in Wisconsin

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT The types of artificial lighting you use in photography give you complete control over the direction, quality, and strength of the light. You can move these light sources around, diffuse them, or reflect them artificial light is light that is not originating from a natural source. The most common artificial light sources in photography are but not limited to flash, tungsten bulbs and flourescent. You can obtain artificial light from street lights, vehicles, buildings, candles, flashlights as well as work lights. Your possibilities are endless. At times, a burst of flash can enhance an outdoor scene. I'm not talking about the harsh, overpowering "deer in the headlights" type of flash power. I'm talking about fill flash, in which the light from the flash mixes with the existing light (also called ambient, or available, light) to illuminate a subject in a natural and unobtrusive way. Artificial lighting requires observation, craft and knowledge on the part of the photographer as we need to previsualize the effect created light will have on the subject.

Here are a few examples.

Happy snapping! :thumbup:

done using a utility light inside umbrella f 4.5, 1 sec exposure, iso 200


ambient light/tungsten bulbs f 4, exposure 1/160, iso 200


candle light and an amber spot light off set, f 4.5, exposure 1 sec, iso 200 exposure bias -.3


fill flash used. I used my speedlite to the right of this


smoke taken with a speedlite and the flash from the camera

laskalass Loc: Land of the Midnight Sun

well this one will present more searching around.....but nice examples Annette...

aleone63 Loc: Some place in Wisconsin

Thanks lask.. I spent some time in the basement... with the spiders.. ick!

Janice Loc: Kentucky

artificial light - flash

Janice Loc: Kentucky

These are great Annette - good job, love the smoke and I am gonna learn to do that - I have tried with no success yet

JacLee Loc: Chico CA

Aleone, Great samples. Great pictures. The smoke is fascinating.

andrewtkinsman Loc: Issaquah, WA

I love the smoke, that is one I've wanted to try for awhile now, I know another one similar that I've also wanted to do was pretty much the same way with using my speedlite on smoke but more of a long exposure and do multiple flashes to give an eerie smoke effect. I love the colors of yours, how do you get your camera flash to go off along with a speedlite, I know with my Canon whenever I use my speedlite it won't let the on-camera flash to fire, unless you fired the speedlite by hand off camera during a long exposure. Just love it though

JacLee Loc: Chico CA

Challenge 8/22/2012. Artificial light

Chris and Anne at my computer


It is what it is----Christmas center piece


Holly, of course!


A pair of beautiful Sisters

Janice Loc: Kentucky

Jackie - these are great

andrewtkinsman Loc: Issaquah, WA

Here are some that I took

This is the light I used the other day to do my water drop photography


End the night with a great bon fire


food art


I chose this one because it looks like a kid bowling

E Mang Loc: Louisiana

Most of these use the light in the area. I rarely use flash, but do have a couple of flash or flash plus. If anyone knows of a good flash tutorial, I would like the link. Maybe I just don't know how to use flash well enough.

Candlelight




Firelight


Firelight with a burst of flash to light up the people


Flash


Stage lighting


Room light


Building lights


Mixed room and decorative lighting


Wall light

E Mang Loc: Louisiana

What beautiful girls. If they are your daughters, you must be a very proud Mom!

catgirl Loc: las vegas

great start to the day aleone very imaginative pg 1

catgirl Loc: las vegas

like this one Janice pg 1

catgirl Loc: las vegas

I love Holly pg 1