By Epic Edits
Today we have a quick tip on photographing during the golden hour from the wonderful guide Understanding Light.
The burdens of big dreams can often be crushing. Remember when you first started as a photographer? I do. I remember taking every single frustration to heart and every setback was just another piece of evidence that I wasn’t cut out for it. I kept looking at my photographs and thinking that they lacked something but I couldn’t quite put it into words. Call it a spark. Call it a style. Call it magic. Whatever it was, I wasn’t getting it and what I was creating wasn’t even satisfying me, let alone giving me the confidence to show it off to an audience.
Again, just a beginner, I didn’t realize how much work and skill it took to get photographs bursting with life and color. Maybe I was too archival about it all, simply documenting what my eyes saw instead of giving it new life with my own lens. I have to chuckle because, looking back, some of those early shots were so dull and lifeless that I could have made an erupting volcano look, pedestrian.
Needless to say, I wanted a change.
I knew there was a missing element, some essential ingredient to the secret sauce and I needed to figure out what it was. Knowing your problem is often half the battle, and the other half was figuring out how to contextualize that within the language of photography.
As luck would have it, one of my mentors clued me into what was missing: I didn’t know how to use light …read more
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