More on Light

As I had blabbered about on a previous blog entry, photography depends much on light. Without light, there’s practically no means to photograph an interesting subject. While we can photography in pitch darkness using infrared or night vision photography, light is still involved as these techniques try to enhance whatever light the camera or sensor can capture. So for this blog entry, I thought i’d share some more info on light. Mind you though that what you’d read below are not from my original ideas: what ‘ll be reading have been passed on to me by kind people who were kind enough to sit down with a schlub like me and explain patiently information that I need to know and learn.

Filtration

Filters (image courtesy of http://www.thefind.com/)

The light you get in certain shooting situations might not be the kind or type of light you want. Sometimes the light is too harsh (during mid-day) or sometimes too dull (over-cast days). While the most obvious solution is to reposition yourself in relation to the light source, there are times that this solution won’t work. You then try to reposition your subject in relation to the direction of the light source to get quality out of what’s given to you on a photo-op. However, there are times that this trick won’t work either. Fortunately, there are a tools you can use to alter the quality and color of light that you get by using a simple accessory called a filter.