From the course: The Elements of Effective Photographs
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See and enhance natural light
From the course: The Elements of Effective Photographs
See and enhance natural light
- Natural light comes in three ways: amazing, okay with potential, and awful. I'm a natural light junkie. I love it when I walk into a situation and the light is so wonderful, I just start shooting. Unfortunately, that happens about 10% of the time. The rest of the time I have to enhance it or create it, and that's the first thing I determine when I walk into any situation. So let's take a look at this in action. Here we have amazing, beautiful, natural light. I love the diagonals that come down from the blinds, and I'm putting this in my okay with potential category. The problem is is that the difference in intensity between highlight and shadow is just too great for our cameras to capture. So if I expose for the highlights, then I have shadows without details. If I expose for the shadows, I've blown out the highlights. Our brains interpret the scene with detail in the shadows, but our sensors can't. The good news is…
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