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AVAILABLE LIGHTS INFRONT OF US WHICH WE DON'T SEE! PART-1

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  As all of our previous blogs are about lighting types, one may wonder, how to produce these type of lighting  when we are on a low budget? Because most of the lighting shown and discussed are produced in a studio with controlled environment. We may be low on our budget, but not on our skills. This is the time to look our surroundings and make the desired light on our  AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT :  The afternoon sunlight which we encounter on our daily basis is a hard-light. That means it creates hard shadows and it shows texture sharply(pretty rough actually). When we have subjects like close-up of a tree bark/close-up of a hard rocky surface/ to capture the shadows in more detailed way, etc., we can make use of natural hard sunlight. Well, working in hard sunlight is quite a challenge. We need to have a little patience while we are shooting our subjects in afternoon hard sunlight. As we said earlier, hard light is extremely good for shadows. With the help of hard light, we can show the deta
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DIVISIONS OF LIGHT : PART - 3 aka BROAD & SHORT & BUTTERFLY LIGHT

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  In the  previous blogs , we got to know the divisions of light based on the direction of light. And we have encountered that how the light effected the quality of the picture. Sometimes, it made our picture smooth, and sometimes as a black body and sometimes as a smooth textured subject.  Based on the light direction and light intensity, light is classified/divided into so many types. Until now  we have seen  front, back and soft light , hard, rim and loop light . And we got to know where to use each of them. So with that being said, let's start DIVISIONS OF LIGHT PART-3 aka BROAD & SHORT & BUTTERFLY LIGHT. BOARD LIGHT : Broad lighting is a type of lighting setup where the area of a subject's face that is facing the camera is lit more brightly. It's like placing the light source in-front of the subject(not exactly, just as an simle interpretation). Broad lighting is typically less flattering for a subject because it widens the face. Broad lighting illuminates the
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DIVISIONS OF LIGHT : PART-2 aka HARD & RIM & LOOP LIGHT.

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In the immediately previous blog , we got to know the divisions of light based on the direction of light. And we have encountered that how the light effected the quality of the picture. Sometimes, it made our picture smooth, and sometimes as a black body and sometimes as a smooth textured subject.  Based on the light direction and light intensity, light is classified/divided into so many types. Until now  we have seen front, back and soft light . And we got to know where to use each of them. So with that being said, let's start DIVISIONS OF LIGHT PART-2 aka HARD & RIM & LOOP LIGHT. HARD LIGHT : We already discussed a few points about this in the immediately previous blog . But let's discuss it in detail here. Hard light is used when you want to emphasize texture and structure of your subject . Hard light creates sharp shadows. Also the umbra region is sharp and there is very less penumbra region. We can easily detect penumbra region. It cannot able to hide any details
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DIVISIONS OF LIGHT : PART - 1 aka FRONT/FLAT & BACKLIGHT & SOFT LIGHT

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In the previous blog , we discussed about light and it's importance. We have encountered how light can change the emotion/mood of a photograph. In the previous blog, we just barely classified light i.e natural and artificial. But actually  there is more to it. Based on the light direction and light intensity, light is classified/divided into so many types. We want to know these divisions to understand role of light completely in the photograph. So with that being said, let's start DIVISIONS OF LIGHT PART-1 aka FRONT/FLAT & BACLIGHT & SOFT LIGHT. FRONT/FLAT LIGHT :  By definition, Front light occurs when the light source is directly in front of your subject. Because of placing light source directly in-front of the subject, there would be no shadows appearing on the subject. Front lighting is mostly used when you are going to show your subject without any flaws . For example, when you are shooting people who have wrinkles, then front lighting would be able to cover tho
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LIGHT

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We come so far with the composition part and we got to know some of the important composition rules/guidelines. And in the recent blog , we learned about an important photographic element, HORIZON . There are many important photographic elements, one of those is "LIGHT". Well, light plays an important role of carrying emotions in the photography . Let's see what is it's importance and how it effects photography. LIGHT : By definition, it's a non-living form of matter carrying living emotions. On a general sense, having more amount of light in the picture signifies the importance of the subject. It need not to be true in all situations. Similarly darker images make us feel the presence of the subject.  On a very simple/basic/low-level classification, light is of 2 types. NATURAL LIGHT ARTIFICIAL LIGHT NATURAL LIGHT : Natural light uses sun as the source of light. And using that sunlight, we try to compose our shots. Shooting with natural light is a bit of a cha
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HORIZON

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Hi y'all. These blogs are about "how to capture pics in a different perspective than usual ", "how to edit them in according with our moods", "particularly how to make them better" and "importantly understanding them better". Firstly, we see how to examine them and how to understand those different elements. Until now we have seen and learned basic composition rules. Well there are many things out there if you want to understand photos. One of the most important element is HORIZON .  HORIZON :  Horizon in general terms known as "the line where sky and land/water meets". We mostly use this general aspect while shooing horizon lines. It's always better to keep the horizon line in the horizontal position. You see, by placing horizon line in the horizontal fashion gives us a sense of balance in the photograph. Stability depends on where you place that horizontal horizon line(high or low). On the other  hand when the horizon is inc
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BASIC COMPOSITION PART-4 aka RULE OF SYMMETRY & DEPTH PERCEPTION

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Hi y'all. These blogs are about "how to capture pics in a different perspective than usual ", "how to edit them in according with our moods", "particularly how to make them better". Especially composition is everything to a photograph. And composition consists of many sub-parts. Well we can't learn them all at once, so let's take one step at a time. With that being said, let's start our baby steps into the topic. Today's topic is about   COMPOSITION  PART-4 .   Well by reading the last  blogs, you would got a better idea of why frames and composition are so important. This blog is a continuation of the previous blogs about COMPOSITION. Composition has so many guidelines, we saw some, now is the time to look the remaining. RULE OF SYMMETRY :  We often tend to like symmetry in the real world. We knowingly/unknowingly tend towards the objects with high levels of symmetry. This symmetry  rule is nothing but "when you are capturing some
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