Available Light

A Basic Kit - For Available Light Portrait Photography

October 09, 2020 in Gear, Getting Started, How To

When starting in portrait photography it is all too easy to get sucked in to studio or off camera flash world when really what we need to do is to start simple with natural / available light.

For this we don’t need a ton of kit.

If you have a camera & lens you can get to work and if you want to add a few tools to offer a lot of control you can do so very affordably.

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Available Light or Flash - The age old debate.

May 23, 2020 in Tutorial, Philosophy

It is often written or posted as Natural / Available light VS Flash like they are two things at constant war with each other.

I do not get it. It’s almost as bad and boring as Canon V Nikon.

To say that one is better than the other or debate which is better is silly and a waste of time. They both have a place and in my opinion it’s a good idea to know how to use both.

People in Facebook groups go at it discussing which is best or argue that their arch enemy don’t know what they are doing. Sigh.

Think that flash is the bee’s knees and think you are not doing anything with available light when running flash .. wrong.

Think natural or available light is the only true way to shoot… wrong. Try shooting that window light at 9pm at night.
As a photographer you should have both in your tool kit, why?