{"id":393,"date":"2009-01-20T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2018-05-16T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:27:40","slug":"help-lighting-newbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2009\/01\/help-lighting-newbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Help!  Lighting Newbie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/3213263212\/\" title=\"Silk Flower Setup by KeriFlur, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3108\/3213263212_598f91ab93.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Silk Flower Setup\" \/><\/a>\n\n-->Last night I had my first class learning studio lighting for product photography, and I found I really have a lot to learn.  Studio lighting is brand new to me &#8211; I only learned what Alien Bees are a few weeks ago, and currently know very little about different lighting types and how to use them.  That&#8217;s all about to change.  Last night I shot with strobes for the first time, learned what a beauty dish is and learned a few techniques for blocking stray light from entering the lens.  Even though there was no prerequisite for the course, I still felt woefully unprepared, so between now and next week I&#8217;ll be reading <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Light\/Fil-Hunter\/e\/9780240808192\/?itm=1\" target=\"_blank\">Light: Science and Magic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strobist<\/a> to nail down the basics.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve been down this road and have tips for where to start with learning lighting, please share them with me.\u00a0 I can use all the help I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had my first class learning studio lighting for product photography, and I found I really have a lot to learn. Studio lighting is brand new to me &#8211; I only learned what Alien Bees are a few weeks ago, and currently know very little about different lighting types and how to use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[194,179,462],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}