Lighting is an extremely important factor in photography.

Sylights is an online tool that helps photographers share their lighting suggestions with other photographers.

Sylights...

  • is a free to use web service.
  • helps people illustrate the position they place the subject within a photograph.
  • lets users create a diagram of their photograph setup. Using this technique, users create diagrams that remind them and/or show others how to get the best lighting effect.

Users...

  • start by specifying dimensions of the area, in metres;
  • can choose to display a grid that will aid them in placing items accurately;
  • right-click the work area to select objects to be placed. They can place...
    • backdrops;
    • umbrellas;
    • Cameras
    • subjects;
    • Beauty Dishes;
    • reflectors;
    • strobes;
    • softboxes
    • Hair Lights;
    • Gobos
    • Other light sources.

A birds-eye view is set to make it easy to view all the objects added.

The final results are excellent; diagrams displaying setups that photographers used to produce specific lighting effects.

Visit http://www.sylights.com/ and click on Diagram Editor to try it out.