Lighting - Make it Work for You!

Let's try to do something special with lighting this week... it doesn't matter whether it is artificial or natural, but I do find that natural almost always works the best. Now that the sun is out, maybe those early morning or evening lighting situations can work for you. Although I am asking you to concentrate on lighting, don't forget at all the importance of subject, and make sure you shoot some photos that "live" and have some sort of content or emotion. Let's not try to go for the "gimmick", but instead look and think seriously about how you might use lighting in a way you never have or at least in a way you have not used for a while. Here's a link for you all... http://digital-photography-school.com/naturallight

Here's a couple I took tonight just before dark with a 200 mm lens and the low sun as my light source. Neither of these has been adjusted from the original shot, but I wish I had gotten the bottom one a bit more focused... I ran out of battery (dumb move) and it was my last photo of the day.