Tutorial Showcase #14

Aug 26, 20136 min read

Deviation Actions

Published: Aug 26, 2013

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DeviantART is a great place to find not only art but also some awesome tutorials. It doesn't matter if you are interested in photo manipulation or writing, usually there is a tutorial for that. But at the same time there are so many great tutorials outside of deviantART and most deviantART users might never find them unless someone shows these tutorials to them. So I'm happy to introduce you a new journal series called "Tutorial Showcase" which features some awesome tutorials outside of deviantART. System is pretty simple. Every showcase journal showcases five tutorials from a specific category and this category changes with every new journal. There's no special placement, all of them are equal. So here we go!

Theme for this time is:

Photography Lighting

Lighting 101

This is more of a tutorial series than a single tutorial. Over the years it has been a extremely helpful and popular tutorial for everyone who is into photography. It starts out with lightning basics and then goes deeper and deeper into it. Definitely a must see tutorial if you are interested in things like this.

photo by Sam Simon
tutorial at strobist

White Background

This tutorial is over 5 years old but lighting hasn't changed with that time. In this tutorial author explains how to take high quality photos with seamless white background. This tutorial starts off with materials and room requirements aka what you have to have to make this thing work. After that it moves on and shows real life example of a studio and a equipment they use to shoot white background photos.

photo by Zack Arias
tutorial at zarias

Portraits with One Light

This tutorial is more for the beginners who lack the amount of camera equipment they have but still already have some. In this tutorial you need camera, photo umbrella and stand-alone flash. With these 3 parts you are shown how to shoot good portrait photos with only one light, with a little help of sun here and there. Even if you don't have the equipment needed, it still gives you some good ideas on how to take good portrait photos without any expensive camera gear.

photo by Cameron Knight
tutorial at tutsplus

Simple Product Photography

Just like the second tutorial in this article, this tutorial also teaches you how to take photos with white background. But unlike the second tutorial, it teaches you how to take photos about products in softbox manner. You definitely need a bit more camera equipment but the overall idea behind this tutorial is that you can take product photos anywhere you like as long as you know how to do it.

photo by Flint Hannah
tutorial at tutsplus

Understanding Light

This is the last tutorial for this time but it is a good one to end the article. It's a little bit different tutorial than all the others because it's more of a "see how I did it" rather than "this is how to do it" tutorial. The author of this tutorial presents you with many different photos from inside to outside and from people to bugs and flowers and shows you the details how he took them. Be sure to check it out and see what you can learn from it.