In Practice
Light Composition
With the help of several examples, I will illustrate how to handle the practical execution of several photographic objectives in this chapter. But before I do, let’s start with the fundamentals of light composition.
Key Light
The key light should always be the dominant light of an exposure. Its basic purpose is to illuminate the entire scene. It determines the prevailing direction of light and, accordingly, the direction of shadows. In natural settings there is only one key light: the sun. For this reason, any picture that appears to have more than one light source causing shadows to run in multiple directions appears ...
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