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Sunlight
One of the easiest lights to use in photography is sunlight. It definitely has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of using the sun as alight source for your photography include:
• The sun is there every day. The sun rises every day and sets every evening. It is the most reliable light source ever. It doesn’t need batteries and never needs to recharge.
• It’s easy to diffuse the sunlight. When you are shooting indoors, the light is being diffused as it comes in through an open window. This turns the very small, hard light source of the sun into a much bigger, softer light source.
• The light can be very even without hot spots. One of the biggest advantages over using a flash is that sunlight is even, and there are no hot ...
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