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Spotlight - On Birds and Light

A SUMMARY - BIRDING IMAGE QUALITY TOOL REV. 2.0

LIGHTING AND AVIAN ANATOMY

LIGHTING AND BARE PARTS



Lighting Environments


AGAINST THE SKY (PART ONE)
AGAINST THE SKY (PART TWO)

AT SEA

ON SNOW AND ICE

IN ARID AND SEMIARID AREAS

UNDER FOLIAGE CANOPY

FOLIAGE CANOPY EDGE

ON GRASSLAND

Through The Lens


THE TERMINOLOGY OF LIGHT

A CLOSER LOOK AT IMAGE EXPOSURE

METERING AND EXPOSURE

LIGHTING UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

LIGHTING AND COMPOSITION

LIGHTING AND PERSPECTIVE (PART 2)

LAMBERT'S COSINE LAW

COSINE FOURTH LAW OF ILLUMINATION FALLOFF

SHADOW ANATOMY

TRANSLUCENCY

POLARIZATION

WHITE BALANCE - A CLOSER LOOK

UV IMAGING

Photofinishing


IMAGE LIGHTING TOOLS

AN ARTEFACT OR NOT AN ARTEFACT

COLOUR BY NUMBERS

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING (HDRI)

Human Bias


LIGHTING AND PERSPECTIVE (PART 1)

LIGHTING AND PERSPECTIVE (PART 2)

BRIGHTNESS ILLUSIONS

GHOSTS

TONAL GRADIENT ILLUSIONS


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