Well after spending the last couple of weeks working on some nightmare PHP code, I spent a couple of hours looking into camera lighting techniques. Up till now I thought I had a great understanding of the relationship between shutter speeds and apertures, and how by varying these increase one and decreasing the other you can maintain the correct exposure of an image, whilst creating different effects such as decreased depth of field or motion blur. However, after watching a video on lighting I realised that whilst my understanding was correct and I was using it correctly. There was another relationship between these components and the final image which I wasn’t fully aware of. This being the relationship of aperture to flash lighting and shutter speed to ambient lighting. Depending on the situation this actually means you can completely separate these two controls allowing you to create some rather funky images.
So now what I need to do is put this into practice and create some exciting images.
