This week we are going to put into practice the tips and tricks that Caro shared a few days ago on how to take spectacular photos in natural light.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. Subjects will range from portraits to macro photography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. Topics will be offered on Saturday, so you have the entire weekend to work. You will have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday will I update the article with the photo that captivated me the most and will I propose a new topic, and so on?
- I risk being an exaggeration.
- But I will say it: if photographers could count on natural light.
- Coming from the sun.
- All the time.
- In all our photographs.
- Even indoors.
- Day and night.
- I think flash creators and studio light bulbs wouldn’t have much to do with selling the truth.
- Yes.
- I exaggerate a little.
- I know there are situations where we use artificial light on purpose in search of an effect perhaps.
- But seriously.
- Like natural light there is nothing.
This week, Caro Musso published a more than interesting article in which she shared tips and tricks on the use of natural light in photography. I’d like you to move the theory article into practice: this week’s challenge is to produce a natural portrait. There is no flash (can be filled, come on), no studio light, just natural sunlight.
You can play with this light at will, make the subject pose completely outside or inside but close to a window. You can draw a white curtain on the window to soften the light as Caro recommended in her article, or use any technique to enhance or treat this light. The only requirement is that it be a portrait in natural light.
If you want your photograph to “impress,” try producing a photograph where light is as important as the subject. There are portraits in which the beauty of the subject is emphasized precisely by the way light affects him. Look for something like this.
Above all, do not participate in the challenge without first consulting the article on natural light.
As usual, to enter this week’s challenge, upload your photo to the Photographer’s Blog Facebook wall: In the photo description, please mention the keyword? Light Challenge? Followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
Thanks for participating and? Good light!
The way the light hits the subject’s face, its softness or intensity, the angle at which it shines, and many other variables related to light can lead to different ways of conceiving a portrait. This week’s challenge was an excuse to jump in and experiment. I bring here just a few examples of the results it has achieved. As always, it is not possible to upload all the good photos that participated here. There are so many ?
Like I said, it is difficult to choose, but this week I am going to take the photograph of Marena Bourguet. The confusion produced by the multitude of hands, inexplicable for a fraction of a second, gives the photo an interesting motif. I also like the audacity with which Marena went for this well-done backlight. Such a front backlight often presents a serious challenge that is not always easy to achieve.
Congratulations.