7 Tips To Master Light In Your Landscape Photography
7 Simple Tips To Master Light In Your Photography
Photographer and YouTuber Nigel Danson discusses 7 Simple Tips To Master Light In Photography in this video. As a photographer, you must learn to use the light around your scene to create beautiful images. This wonderfully made video provides some very good points on how to ensure that you incorporate light in your composition decisions.
As Nigel describes, the tips he discusses are listed out for you below the video:
Light and Focus - The video discusses how to light in your images to provide focus on the subject. One of Nigel’s suggestions is to use beams of light from the sun to highlight specific parts of the landscape that will focus the viewer’s eye on the subject.
Care About Shadows - Strong shadows are something that many photographers attempt to avoid in their images. However, using shadows that provide leading lines to your subject can very much improve your compositions.
Color - Light provides color in all of our photographs, and using contrasting colors can often create beautiful images. Nigel discusses how using light to your advantage, especially during certain times of the day such as blue hour, provides wonderfully colored images.
Light And Texture - How does light interact with the surfaces in your image? Nigel talks about how to understand the interaction with light as it reflects from the surfaces in your image. In the video he shows some great examples of how different lighting provides drastic differences in how texture appears in your images.
There’s No Such Thing As Bad Light - Nigel talks about how to embrace poor weather and lighting, especially during stormy and overcast days. Forest photography can be especially helped in overcast days by removing harsh shadows from making your images too busy.
Directions Of Light - There are four directions of light to consider in photography: front light, side light, top light, and back light. Try making powerful images using strong color contrasts caused by directed light. You can also use the contrast of shadows created by the light source to create very powerful images. Using side lighting creates beautiful images by
Light And Atmosphere - Looking for atmospheric conditions is critical in making great images. Using fog in landscapes and forest images adds lots of drama to your images. Going out and making landscape images after a long rainfall can give some brilliant color for your photography.
Nigel is a great photographer, and he makes some very well made videos for photographers. So, head on over to his channel and subscribe!
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