16. THE DIRECTION AND YOUR POSITION
ONE THING THAT differs between natural light photography and the artificially lit studio environment is your ability to manipulate the position of your light source(s). It’s quite easy to move an artificial light, but impossible to move the sun.
With natural light portraiture, two considerations are the direction from which the light source is hitting your subject and your position relative to the light source. When you started out in photography, you probably thought that as long as the light was behind you, you’d make a decent image. However, the direction from which the light source hits the portrait subject ...
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