http://lizrogersphotography.com/2013/02/soft-foreground-lighting-in-tank-cave/ Cave diving and underwater photography Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:28:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 http://lizrogersphotography.com/2013/02/soft-foreground-lighting-in-tank-cave/#comment-4770 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:58:25 +0000 http://lizrogersphotography.com/?p=1394#comment-4770 […] little while back I talked about soft foreground lighting in my underwater shots. I think this becomes doubly important for dry […]

]]> http://lizrogersphotography.com/2013/02/soft-foreground-lighting-in-tank-cave/#comment-4312 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:34:23 +0000 http://lizrogersphotography.com/?p=1394#comment-4312 Hmmm, interesting, thanks. I’ve seen people tinting strobes of different brands to get the light temperature all the same, but hadn’t considered reversing the process. I think bouncing light off different coloured wall rock might have done this incidentally in the past, with some caves looking “better” than others as a result.

]]> http://lizrogersphotography.com/2013/02/soft-foreground-lighting-in-tank-cave/#comment-4311 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:13:49 +0000 http://lizrogersphotography.com/?p=1394#comment-4311 The gentle front fill looks good. A trick from when I was lighting stage shows is to use lights of slightly different colour to avoid that harsh flat light effect. If a couple of lights have very slightly different tints it creates a bit of contrast around shapes and makes a scene look 3D again.

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