Lessons
Day 1
1Introduction
03:58 2Theme: Dogs
20:39 3Theme: Hair
18:22 4Theme: Vanishing Act
12:46 5Audience Q&A
46:34 6Extra: Art of Composition, Spring Tour 2010
02:11Day 2
Lesson Info
Side Light
side lighting is probably the more common type of light that I would photograph, not people so much as landscapes, the beautiful deserts of Africa or the Southwest. You know, it's the sun is coming low to the risin, and my subject is at a bleak 90 degree angle to the sun. I'm using a polarizer, and it just emphasizes the three dimensional effect of the light on the land. And it's the type of light. I used a lot photographing that project. Had there not been side lighting in this image, you wouldn't you know most of the shot. The mountain profile, as you see, is not unique. In fact, it's a pretty bland looking profile, but it's the way the light reveals the very fluted avalanche strong, strewn slopes of this mountain in the Himalayas that makes the shot engaging. So side lighting is the type of light that I usually photographed land formations from sand dunes, the mountains throughout the world. This is the Grand Triangle tower in the Pakistan's Karakoram Range, and it's the way the sun...
sweeps across this great face, a granite 20,000 feet tall that gives that texture to the rock. So it's about picking up the texture on the rock. And speaking of texture, these are Petricka lists and Kenyon to Shea in, um, New Mexico. And I did not see these Petro Galis carvings in the rock until the sun was coursing across the face at a very oblique angle. And suddenly, for a few moments, the texture on the way the light reveals it is obvious. And then it goes away again. It's the sun and Chris salt crystals in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.