Amateur Photographer

Light craft

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One of the idiosyncrasies of photography is that we are accustomed to the idea of lighting subjects with a light that none of us can properly see. A burst of flash is impossible to judge by eye, but it’s the accepted norm for photographic lighting, and has been so for more than a century. For this reason, flash has always been one of the biggest

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