Photography Tutorial
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hey man, everyone is right that you need to have a solid understanding of lighting in order to take good fashion photos. But, you need to understand lighting for any type of photography.
I personally almost never use strobes when I'm shooting. I avoid shooting in the studio as well.
I'm very big on shooting with ambient light, sometimes with a reflector.
I tend to expose for the shadows and blast out the bg when possible. But, there are many different styles of fashion photography. Some shooters use the same lighting rigs that you would see for a film set.
I guess the first piece of advice would be to understand how light works and then understand the shutter-speed/aperture relationship. Without those basics then you'll never get what you want.
First things first, buy a light meter and then set your camera to full manual. Well, maybe keep auto-focus but at least know how to override it.
But in order to get what you're looking for a wide-field TTL light meter isn't going to be refined enough to do the job.
Once you've figured out how to shoot in ambient light, or using single-point (the sun) with a reflector(s) then you'll be able to move onto studio stuff.
This doesn't have to be a lengthy process but you need to understand shutter-speed/aperture in order to use a studio rig so . . .
You might want to check out this forum:
http://www.duroi.com/fashionforu…
It's a great place to get advice, tech help, etc. The shooters in there aren't super-stars by any means but it's a good bunch of people and they're quite helpful.
Hope that helps out a bit.