Michael Freeman's Photo School Fundamentals

LIGHT & LIGHTING

 

It’s easy to underestimate the significance of light, as it’s basically ubiquitous in our waking lives. If we aren’t outside during the day being guided by the sun, we’re constantly battling back the darkness with our own artificial lights. Even scenarios we consider quite dark will almost always have some source of light in them, like a path through the woods at night being ever so faintly illuminated by the moon above. As such, most people take light for granted. Either it’s there or not; the lamp is turned either on or off. And if it’s there, it’s either bright or dim, simple as that.

Photographers, of course, know there’s quite a lot more going on, and that’s what makes light and lighting such an interesting and fundamental ...