so we went down to the beach down the road...
First while the sun was still up I tried some shots with sidelighting
then moved to some open shade for for diffused light (and played with my lensbaby)
then sunset
twilight
And that all I managed that day, but a friend of mine asked if I would take some photos of her new baby last week... so I have included a window light image from that day
and I managed to try some ofthe other lighting senarios with my children over a few days
backlight, with my slightly grubby, hot and bothered 3 year old daughter Arwen.
full sun , which I kinda went all silhouette with
low light indoors
complete dark, with a candle (and a very inquisitive 3 year old)
I think I found backlighting tricky, particularly with were to shoot from and getting the camera to focus . Any tricks with that.
I really struggled with full sun ,which is why I reverted to silhouette, but in a wedding , I'm figuring that is not really an option, the harsh shadows were unpleasant, and I didn't know how to counteract them, or work with the light. .. I will maybe re-read your lesson with that one.
Side lighting was also hard to manage, I was trying this when the sun was on it's way to setting, but still very strong and I had to adust my exposure a lot to stop from getting blown out highlights.
A lot of things to work on... and this is not such a good thing with a first wedding to shoot in only a few days.
