Today's tutorial - Light!

Light Baby!

It's everything when it comes to photography. These photographs are for next weeks demonstration - my boy : early October evening, lovely light, but not much of it!

I used my reflector to show the effect of changing light on a portrait picture. Each of these pictures are straight out of the camera - so not my best work, but they do illustrate my points.

1. Light has a colour - compare the gold and silver pictures. Look at how much warmer the gold reflector picture is. And
2. If you don't have enough light, give it a boost - don't be afraid to used something to reflect light. Jarom's eyes look wonderful in the silver reflector picture

So today's lesson - search out good light. Good photographers light is often called indirect light - light that is diffused (by clouds or a shady tree), blocked (by a wall, fence or just inside the doorway of your home) or reflected. If there isn't enough light try giving it a little boost by using a reflector (water, a white sheet of card or even silver foil from the kitchen make good reflectors).

Give it a try, see what a difference good light makes!