October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
219 pages
5h 33m
English
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Chapter 4. Lighting Your Photos
In This Chapter
Observing light
Source and direction of light
Front lighting
Side lighting
Backlighting
Character, intensity, and color of light
How light changes
Shadows created by light
Ambient light
Sunlight
Incandescent and fluorescent
On-camera flash
If digital photography is about capturing time in a two-dimensional frame, the tool used for this capture is light. Reduced to its barest minimum, photography takes place when an exposure occurs. To make an exposure means to capture what the cameras sees, and the camera uses light to see. Without light, there is no photograph.
This means that the photographer needs to learn about light, observe light, and learn to light photos.
A possible objection, if you are thinking of nature photography, is that the lighting is not yours but rather chances of weather, position, time of day, and so on. Essentially it is something you can't control. This may be true, but the photographer should learn how to manipulate these elements to take the best possible advantage of existing light. To achieve this goal, the first step is to become a careful observer of light.
If you learn to observe light, and manipulate it when necessary to benefit your pictures, your photographs will improve—and you'll have more fun photographing. This chapter teaches you the basic vocabulary to understand how your pictures are lit, provides you with some photographic techniques to make better use of the light that is available, and shows you how to improve ...
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