If someone gave me a dollar for every time that I've heard someone say "I'm a natural light photographer," there would be enough extra money in my bank account that I can probably afford to take off three months out of each year to just travel for the fun of it.
To the uninitiated, the proclamation that one only shoots in natural light may sound like a badge of honor, but to most working professional photographers, this concept is confounding at best, and downright ridiculous at worst. Be that as it may, there is a growing legion of photographers that have embraced this "natural light only" mantra, due either to their inexperience with utilizing lighting equipment, or out of some misguided notion that the "natural light look" is somehow superior. What if I were to tell you that all light, natural or otherwise, behaves identically regardless of the source, provided that you are photographing someone on planet Earth? If you understand principles of lighting and how it behaves, you can make artificial light sources look like natural light, and turn day into night, or vice versa. Being able to shoot 24 hours a day means that I can adapt to the needs of my clients as well as challenges posed by mother nature, which translates to more billable hours and more income. Sounds a lot better than only being able to photograph client work while the sun's out, doesn't it?. thephoblographer.com
2019-1-9 14:00
