The camera’s whole purpose in life is to make an image that is 18% gray. Long ago, someone decided that 18% gray was as close to the human eye, as a camera can get. But if for example, 80% of the picture frame is filled with light that is brighter than 18% gray, what does the camera do? It tries to average out the given light. It will take your best friend and makes him or her, a silhouette. Don’t get mad at the camera, it’s only doing what it has been told to do.
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9.29.2007 | Light for Photographers Posted By : Colin Aiken
Good lighting makes an enormous difference to photographs and natural lighting can be good or bad depending on the position and angle that you shoot from. This article explains how to assess the natural lighting around you in terms of how it will affect your final photograph.
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Weve all sat, staring out of our window and cursing at the rain poring down or the flat, grey sky that just happened to cloud over on few hours weve managed to set aside in our busy schedule to head out and shoot some photos
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