Taming the harsh light …

Taming the light….

That’s for sure a very ambitious goal… Taming the light is probably one of your biggest obsession when you start in photography.

But let’s come back a bit to what’s happening to me at the moment…..

I’m following right now a super cool training to improve my photographer skills with the French photographer : Pierre T. Lambert Link here.

And basically that’s what brings me here writing to you about my passion for photography just few weeks after beginning😅. It might even sounds strange no ? Why would I right about photography if I almost know nothing about it ?? It’s basically because learning photography goes through sharing and who else could share better how it feels to learn about a discipline that the learner himself ??

As simple as that, through this blog you gonna learn with me discovering my impressions, and hopefully you’ll be able that the progression in skills is happening, hopefully … :) most importantly, I really want to learn from you and any comments or my pictures or my tips are more than welcome 🙏

So we were talking about the light 💡…. more precisely the harsh light 🌞 … when I was using a camera being younger my biggest “fear” was the “contre-jour” (= against the light) and then my first discovery starting to learn photography is that it can totally be an asset to face the light. As you can see in this picture facing the light definitely create this blown out background that put emphasis on my subject, Most importantly I’ve choosen to use the curtain edge to define exactly were the light will it this subject. By the way who is my subject ( you can read more about how to choose your subject HERE ) ??

In this case it was definitely the glass full of Ice cube. I literally love here the sharpness and transparency of the glass facing the frozen and diffusing material of the ice…. the bar man, the shaker, the bottle are all there to enchant those ice cubes fighting from all their strengths to Tame the light as I was doing so beginning to understand how she behave….

Any light story on your side ? how do you isolate your subject when you face the light ?

Let’s Talk tech :

As you can see here finally very simple parameters to master the light. The fact that I could benefit from the diffusion of the curtain helped me to keep a very high aperture (f1,8) to have a very strong detachment between the glass and the barman and without blowing out the all picture.