Light and Shoot 50 Fashion Photos

Lighting Glossary

While you can use a continuous lamp or a strobe on its own, to control the light it is producing you need to employ lighting modifiers. From softboxes that diffuse the light, through to spot attachments that create a hard, well-defined light-pool there are numerous accessories available to help you achieve your vision and knowing what effect these modifiers have plays a vital part in creative lighting. Many photographers will spend a considerable amount of time experimenting with various combinations to produce their idiosyncratic images, so the following glossary provides a rundown of the most commonly used lighting accessories in fashion photography. The vast majority of these will feature in the following chapters, where ...