Photography podcast #30 is all about how to use reflectors to better your photography. We focus on common types of reflectors, when to use them as well as why reflectors are an essential item‚for every‚photographer’s toolkit.The following photographs illustrate how effective a reflector can be to add light to subjects that are in shadow or that need a little extra boost of light. Note how especially the eyes of both my boy (Ziglet the cat) and my wife (posing in ‘Pulp Fiction’ style)‚receive extra illumination and become much more vibrant when a reflector is used. Note that the exposure DID NOT change for any of the reflected/unreflected shots. I also did not do any manipulation whatsoever in a graphics program as I wanted to clearly illustrate the effects of changing only 1 variable. (adding a reflector) You can click the photographs to enlarge them.
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 Ziglet — No reflector |
 Ziglet — With reflector — Eyes and face are vibrant |
 Ziglet — No reflector |
 Ziglet with reflector doing its job in the photo |
 Carmy — No reflector |
 Carmy — With reflector — Eyes and face are vibrant |
 Carmy with reflector doing its job in the photo |
New segment in the podcast — Photography.ca — Photo of the week -
This week, the photograph is by Arkady Renko and I comment in the podcast on why I think this photograph is fantastic.
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Other photography links mentioned in this podcast;
Flickr
Leading lines in photography
The rule of thirds in photography‚ ‚
Thanks as always for the comments by‚Bekka, Al and Norm‚on our previous podcast‚where we Interviewed‚fine art photographer Rafael Goldchain. We LOVE comments and suggestions so please send more.
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Reflectors are wonderful, they give you additional light sources very cheap. I have been using lightright reflectors for 22 years, because when I first started I could only afford one light source (a kinda soft box) The reflectors just work. LightRIGHTreflector.com
GB
Hey thanks for the compliment Norm!
TOTALLY — you must try reflectors, they are amazing and you’ll notice a BIG difference especially if you’ve been using on camera flash to light your subjects.
Small basic reflectors (COLLAPSIBLE) are cheap and should range in price from about 20 to 60 dollars depending on sizes that I talked about in the podcast. I’m going to try to put up links to buy in the next few days.
Congratulations on the 30th podcast, we’ll have to see about those pearls though…
Anyways, great show, I appreciated how you described different objects that you’ve used as as reflectors when in a pinch. I’ve never used one before but I’m excited to give it a try. Do you know an average price for a small basic reflector? I live in QuÆ’‚©bec so the prices you would find would likely be similar for me.
Thanks! keep up the great shows!