I have yet to figure out my posting schedule yet. I want to try and be steady enough, but I don't want to bore you either with too many nonsense posts. A happy medium I will find. Maybe I will have a theme to run weekly. That may be best. So for now, you get my thoughts on what I am learning, or maybe something that I have done in the past.
Light is everything in photography. Without light, there is no image, and everything we do in taking a photo is ultimately about getting the right kind of light to go the right places to create the image. Understanding how light works in photography is critical to getting good photos.
~Neil Creek in the book Photo Nuts and Bolts (http://www.digital-photography-school.com/nuts-f)
Being that I am currently working with natural lighting scenarios, I wanted to share with you my first shoot where it truly clicked for me. It was about 5pm, and the sun was nearly close to being gone. We went to a dam, where the water was low, but there was some. The dam wall provided the perfect area to bounce that wonderful light off of. Some photographers use reflectors. I prefer to shoot with the surrounding area to bounce the light. Since I am a single person, I cannot shoot the picture and hold a reflector properly. Although I may learn how to do this in the future, I do not want to currently do this. My goal is to learn how to get the shot I want on the fly.
This shoot is of my best friend Maggie, and her son B. Between the water and the wall, I was in heaven! First we started off with the sun in her face. You can see why this is not good. She is squinting, and it produces harsh shadows. What to do?
We then turned to face a wall. The sun was setting, and we were quickly loosing light.
My ISO was only set to about 320 for these pictures.
As you see, we were completely in the shadow, as the sun was going down. But looking at the pictures above, you would never know it!
Not much of a post I guess.... but this is what I want to do in my photos. Take the natural light, and use existing structures to get the most out of it, at the lowest ISO possible. :) Another question that I will face another day - Just how bright is too bright?
Did anyone noticed the Bon Jovi reference in the title? I am a big Jovi fan. Some other faves are Madonna, NKOTB, NSYNC, Justin Timberlake, Daughtry and Lady Gaga. Proud to be a fan of them all!
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