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"As we all know, photographing children can be very challenging. It is tough enough just to keep them in sharp focus. Who in their right mind would complicate the task even further by adding pets and flash lighting to the mix? You should!  Adding the right amount of flash at the correct angle can turn an ordinary snapshot into a work of art."

Welcome to lesson two! The next two lessons are going to focus on camera basics. First off, we're going to talk about aperture - also called f-stop - and shutter speed. Those two things alone put me off for a very long time when I was a beginner and considering learning more about photography. All the years I spent growing up while I was young, I had a camera in my hands. I have boxes full of photographs of school events, slumber parties, the poodle I had growing up and all of my friends acting goofy. I figure some of that will make good blackmail material later on in life, but I digress… The point is that I was born with a love for taking pictures, but all of the crazy technical sounding stuff was very scary to me. If that's where you are, I'm here to tell you that you have nothing to be scared of. It takes a while to get the feel of how to know exactly what you're doing, but the basic concepts are quite easy, and I'll give you some tools you can use to help you along until it all comes naturally to you.

Do you know why they call this piece of studio equipment "Beauty Dish"? Because it make people look beautiful. The idea is similar to other diffusion ideas - the more diffusion you put in your light, the softer the image is. This idea is widely deployed in photography studios -

Portraiture has long been the bread and butter of photography; every working photographer needs to know how to shoot and light people effectively - to flatter, to deceive, to allude and to enhance - but there has never before been such a simple, time-saving (and timeless) reference as this. Over two hundred lighting setups are shown in action, allowing you to quickly select one that will work for you.

Friends (whether you know them or not), are typically amateur, but that doesn't mean that they can't make excellent subjects, in fact their natural relaxation and chemistry often creates much more interesting photos.