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In this episode Mark has some simple lighting tips that can help to improve your photos in different natural light situations.

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Pre-set modes like "Sports" and "Night Portrait" make it easy for us to just point and shoot. If you're new to photography, two of the most important things to learn are aperture and shutter speed settings as these will give you a lot of creative control. If you're not sure what settings to use Mark has an easy to follow spreadsheet to help you determine the right settings.

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Holding a DSLR for the first time can be quite overwhelming and you may want to completely understand how your camera does what it does with the buttons and switches that it has. This week Mark will show you what these buttons do.

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This week Mark Wallace shows us how to use a slow shutter speed to get some really fun photos. By shooting at night with slow shutter speeds you can create interesting shapes with light.

Bonus blooper included at the end of the video.

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This week Mark Wallace talks about on camera flash. There are ways that we can modify the on-camera flash to control our lighting. We can bounce our flash from ceilings, walls, or off of reflectors and Mark will show us how.

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This week Mark Wallace talks about high key and low key lighting. In it's simplest terms a high key image is a bright image full of light and mostly white tones whilst a low key image is a dark with minimal lighting and rich in black tones and lots of shadow areas. Let's explore these two dramatic lighting alternatives.

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This week Mark Wallace talks about dynamic range, a topic a lot of the viewers have asked about. Dynamic range describes the ratio between the maximum and minimum measurable light intensities. Mark also talks about sensor size and why its important.

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Studio Lighting Essentials for Portrait Photography is everything you need to get started in the world of Studio Lighting. This video was written and hosted by Mark Wallace. Mark is known for his easy to understand teaching style and ability to take concepts and put them into practical use.

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This video is the second part of Studio Lighting Essentials for Portrait Photography. This video shows examples of the techniques shown in Part 1 of this series.

This video includes over 20 lighting setups. Mark walks you through each lighting setup and then shows you the results from his camera.

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This week Mark demonstrates some techniques for creating stop-action and time lapse videos. Watch as Mark animates a wooden toy and then creates a movie in Apple Final Cut Studio.