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"Step 1 - What Is Aperture? The best way to understand setting your aperture is to think of it as the pupil of an eye.  The wider it gets, the more light it lets in. Together, the aperture settings, shutter speed and ISO produce an exposure. The diameter of the aperture size changes, allowing more or less light onto the sensor. This depends on the situation and the scene being photographed. Creative uses of different aperture sizes and their consequences are tackled in Step 2. Put simply, when talking about light and exposure, wider apertures allow more light and narrower ones allow less."

Quite simply put - we need reflectors because they provide a reflective light to our images that lights just can't provide. They are able to be used at that 'other' light you hear photographers always talking about.

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.

Everyone is different with respect to the gear they choose to take a given assignment. But a news photographer typically carries two digital bodies, one with a fast wide zoom and another with a fast tele zoom. A Nikon user might have two Nikon D2h's, a 17-35/2.8 and an 80-200/2.8. This gear covers wide to telephoto with the ability to shoot wide open at f/2.8 throughout the range.

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 -

Making Light II - Advanced Use of Off-Camera Flash by Piet Van den Eynde was released today and is an in-depth instructional eBook on the topic of advanced flash photography.

"The trick in outdoor flash photography is that you need to balance your strobe light with the available light. So basically you will be working with (at least) 2 exposures: your flash exposure, and the camera's exposure. "

"Move beyond auto mode and gain control of your photographs with step-by-step guidance from Santa Fe Photographic Workshops instructor Rick Allred. Master your camera's features and join Rick in the field as he reveals how to find flattering light and shoot successfully in shade, harsh sunlight and challenging low light. Learn to use shutter speed and depth of field to maximize detail, minimize distractions and create the best photos possible."

Portrait Lighting Tutorial: Character Study Capture the essence of a male subject in a single image.

Posing and Lighting a Profile Portrait

Reasons you need to use a reflector when shooting outside on a bright day.

"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."

7 daily exercises that will make you a better photographer. Additionally this page has lighting suggestions and composition rules