Mishka1965's blog

Last month, I mentioned the desire to always use natural light when possible, and reduce the dependence on artificial lighting. This month, I plan to continue working both indoors and outdoors, and to use a naturally well lit room that has produced nice images in the past. Again, I used my Nikon D750 and the Samsung S8 - as I like to compare the two, and the S8 is very easy to get candid shots quickly. The lens I use is the the Tamron 15-30 and a 28-75 as well. Both are great and offer versatile shots.

This month's blog is about natural light.

I think we all know the nice pictures and melow effects you can get from natural ambient lighting, and I really appreciate the nice photos you get when using indirect bounce light from a sun light augmented with just a few fill lights.

This month, I did some experimenting with using green screen backgrounds. For this, I used a simple 2 light setup, and a green cloth backdrop. This is something you can buy anywhere like at Amazon. A simple 3Mx3M cloth is quite good and will cover the background and some floor. I hung the cloth over a rod over head and used little plastic clamps to hold in place. Next I adjusted the light to light evenly and reduce the wrinkles.

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