In this fourth episode I show how I personally deal with back lighting. These are just two examples and there are many other different back lighting situations. The key is to either hide the sun behind something or to let it into your lens on purpose. If you let the sun into your [...]
After two episodes of "Find the light" where I showed you how to find good light when the sun is at its highest this episode is for situations where you are on an open field where you cannot find any shadow at all and the sun is still to high to create images with nice evening light.
When I started out as a wedding photographers and I didn't educate my clients about lighting and when the best lighting for their wedding photography would be I was often forced to photograph at noon with the sun at it's highest. And some timetables of weddings still just offer me the option to shoot with harsh light. So when we started this serie of videos in March we decided to break it into different parts as there a plenty of options to shoot at noon.
Being a wedding photographer or a portrait photographer you are often forced to photograph at noon when the sun is at it's highest. When I started out as a photographer that was a situation for me I struggled with. To show you how to deal with that harsh lighting the best (my personal opinion) and to give you more confidence shooting at noon I prepared a little video. Before you click to watch it let me first apologize: 1. For my brilliant German accent. 2. For this video being only in English (with a German accent)
