Welcome to the fifth meeting of the Eden Photographers Club! I hope everyone had a good month of thinking about photography and looking at the world through a photographer’s eyes. I want to thank all of you who are here tonight, and especially those of you who submitted and critiqued photos on the Eden Photographers tumblr site. With summer in full swing, I expect all of us have had more photography opportunities and hopefully more people will be submitting and critiquing photos this coming month. But *please* people, consider doing some critiquing as well as submitting photos to be critiqued. Please trust me when I say that doing critiquing can be just as helpful as being critiqued.


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The first remedy is fill light. Fill light is light that is thrown into shadowed areas from another light source. Camera flashes can do this, although where they are situated on a camera often makes it difficult to put the light exactly where you want it. An off-camera flash or other light source that shines at an angle that illuminates the shadowed areas is a great way to solve this problem. However, such a flash is expensive, and another light source may not be handy.

One solution is…aluminum foil. Yup. It’s not just for cooking. A square of foil, say 12” x 12” (30 cm x 30 cm) that you fold up in whatever you carry your camera around in can make a handy, light, and easily transported light source. And don’t worry about it getting crinkled – it actually works better that way. Just position the foil as you would a mirror and reflect light into the shadowed area. Presto! Instant light! There are other reflectors you can buy that are more professional looking, but aluminum foil has been a standby of standby of even professional photographers for decades.



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