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Expression used when a photograph is shot using only light that is existing
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Why Available Light?
First and most importantly, it saves your precious and sometimes very costly batteries.

Available light
Wherever possible, take your pet's photo in an area with lots of available light so you do not have to use a flash. A room with lots of windows, often a sun room or dining room, works wonderfully for this purpose.

Available light. A general term implying relatively dim light that already exists where a photograph is to be made.

Available light
(see: Existing light )
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B ("Bulb")
Shutter setting on which the shutter will stay open as long as the release is depressed. Used for exposures longer than the numbered shutter speed settings.
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Available light. Strictly speaking, existing light covers all natural lighting from moonlight to sunshine.

Available Light
Light of almost any sort which exists and has not been introduced to record images. Its use is sometimes fast, cheap, and even beautiful.

available light:
The light present in an area without the addition of a strobe or a floodlight.
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Available light - this can be any kind of light that's already there, such as daylight or artificial light - as opposed to light the photographer adds with a flash gun or other photographic lighting unit.
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Available Light
Night or available light situation usually suffer from extreme contrasts between dark and very bright spots (like street lights).

Available Light Portrait. Smaller file to reduce noise.
The 5x zoom covers a range of 6.4-32.0mm (36-180mm 35mm equivalent) with six lenses in four groups. It's not a cheap lens, though at f/3.3-5.0, it's also not a fast one.

AVAILABLE LIGHT - Existing light surrounding a subject; the light that is illuminating a scene without any additional light supplied by the photographer. "Ambient light" and "existing light" are two other terms that mean the same thing.

Available light - term applying to light normally occurring in a scene, not supplemented by illumination intended specifically for photography.
Axis lighting - light pointed at the subject from a position close to the lens.

Available light
The light that is present in a scene, either indoors or out, that is not added by the photographer. Also called ambient light or existing light.
Axis lighting
Light pointed at the subject from a position close to the camera's lens.

Available light.
Also "existing light." Whatever light is available to a photographer without setting up extra lamps, turning on flash units, etc.

Rely on Available Light
Get away from that on-camera flash whenever possible. Only turn to it when:
You are shooting in bright conditions and simply need a wee bit of fill flash; or You have no alternative but to rely on your on-camera flash.

Natural or available light
Your first few rolls taken using natural light of colourful reef scenes can be very disappointing. This in because the eye perceives nor* than the film.

The natural available light in a scene, for example the light from the sun through a window.
Anti-Aliasing:
Technique that smooths out hard edges of aliasing by averaging out the pixels around the edge.

Shooting In Available Light
For this first shot, we adjusted the following camera settings in our digital SLR to render a natural look: ...

Diana Camera Available Light Photos
Some contents of this article adapted from Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch, Boston: Focal Press, 1991, pp. 141-3.
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Existing Light Available light. Strictly speaking, existing light covers all natural lighting from moonlight to sunshine.

I do a lot of "available light" environmental portrairture work, both indoors and outdoors using highly saturated (albeit "slow" 50 -100 ASA) films. My absolutely favorite lens is the Zeiss Sonnar 180 f2.

aperture opening
available light in the scene
desired effect
film speed.

For most purposes, available light should be used whenever possible, and artificial light should be made to look as "natural" as possible... unless the photographer has some very specific artistic or aesthetic purpose in mind.

Light, Ambient
The available light completely surrounding a subject. Light already existing in an indoor or outdoor setting that is not caused by any illumination supplied by the photographer.

Push processing is nothing more than over-developing film, to enable one to shoot pix with a faster shutter speed (sports action) or lower light (spy photos, indoors, available light or dim/night light) and still obtain satisfactory pix.

Numerous reenlistments, frockings, and promotion ceremonies are conducted indoors where the lighting conditions are unfavorable for available light photography.

Fill flash (forced) mode, often called Flash On or Forced Flash, fires the flash fires even if there is enough available light to take the picture without flash. It is used when you want to fill in shadows when the subject is back or side lit.

Forced on always fires the flash when you press the shutter, regardless of the amount of available light present while flash off turns the flash off, so you can capture an image with available light without the flash firing.

(Exposure times vary from five to sixty seconds or more depending on the amount of available light.) The plate is then developed and fixed.

To do so, measure the available light as usual and find the exposure time required to match the aperture setting on the flash. To prevent the result from being overexposed, you should then stop down the lens aperture by roughly another 1/2 stop.

As a result choosing a good time of day when there is plenty of available light is probably your best bet. If you do need more light check to see if your camera allows you to pull back the level that your flash fires at.

It is dark and the only available light is in the tanks. Take your time shooting. Place your camera lens against the glass and move with the fish whenever possible. If you plan on using a flash, do not shoot directly at the glass.

Existing Light: Any available light regardless of time of day and at any location.
Fill Flash: A technique to brighten dark shadow areas, often used when the subject is located in the dark shadow.

Like in any photography styles, lighting or available light can make or unmake any photograph.

Available Light
• Sunset
• Fireworks
• Cuisine
• Behind glass
• Document
• Auction
• Shoot and select (fast-moving subject)
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An alternate name for available light. This is the light (natural, artificial or both) that lights the photographic subject. It is specifically that illumination not provided by the photographer.

Metering - The process of measuring the available light reflected from the subject to calculate the proper exposure time or aperture.
My Mode - An HP Real Life technology defines the way a camera operates based on a user’s specific needs.
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Digital or film - Learn to love available light
Learn to make a huge leap in the quality of your images by putting away the flash and using available light.

On a digital camera, increasing the gain amplifies the available light, meaning the light needs to be collected for a shorter period of time.

This is the same as Program mode except you select the type of subject you are photographing and camera sets the exposure depending on the available light and lens being used.

In practice your choice of film speed will probably be governed by the amount of available light. The brighter it is the slower a film you will be able to use.

Flash - A built-in flash supplies auxiliary light to supplement natural or available lighting conditions often resulting in better color, better exposure, and improved picture sharpness.

Bounce Lighting - Any light bounced off a reflector (such as the ceiling or walls) to give the effect of natural or available light.

-Open flash is a method of flash operation using the following sequence: shutter opened, flash fired, shutter closed. Usually shutter duration is unimportant since the available light is much dimmer than the flash.

800 speed color negative films are great for available light work, and I've been successful at printing 8x10s from Photo CD scans of 800 speed negs (grain isn't as big an issue as I was led to believe).

Digital cameras often include a control for adjusting the ISO speed; some will adjust it automatically depending on the lighting conditions, adjusting it upwards as the available light dims. Generally, as ISO speed climbs, image quality drops.

The problem with this is that when the sun peaked out from the clouds and came in the room, I shut the flashes off and took pictures in available light.

Flash or tungsten light bounced off a reflector (such as the ceiling or walls) or attachment that fits on the flash (like the LumiQuest's Pocket Bouncer) to give the effect of natural or available light.

what the tube does is this: it makes only a fraction of the entire frame fall onto the film/sensor. hence the magnification, but obviously the film/sensor now only gets a fraction of the available light, ...

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