Tips: Photographing Outdoor With Natural Lighting

Many said photographing outdoor activities dijam best-s like 4 pm or 8 am when the sun was not too hot. So that the term "golden hour" which is popular in the world of photography. But is should always shoot at the Golden hour? The answer is no. You are free to do any shooting outdoors, but to achieve more optimal results, it is worth listening to some of these tips.

1. Know your lighting around your character
For shooting outdoors, you must observe and recognize the character lighting around. There are 3 phases of lighting that can be used to photograph and all three will give the effect of different lighting. For more details you can see the picture below.

 

 

The third phase of this natural lighting you can use to take pictures. But you also need to look at the weather conditions at the site. There are times when the lighting conditions are good to very good initially not supported due to the weather change suddenly. If so, I suggest you find another time to take pictures.

2. Experiment with light and do not see the light of good or bad
Once you recognize the character of the lighting around, the next step you have to do is experiment. Do not waste your time just to wait for the right lighting conditions. Photographing at the "golden hour" is going to result in uneven lighting on the object, but that does not mean shooting outside the "golden hour" shots you'll be less well. Try to explore!

Photo credit: szefi

3. Note the direction of the sun and avoid backlight
When shooting outdoors, the sun can be your true enemies or friends. For that, you must pay attention to the position of the sun with the object. Sunlight will be an enemy if you position the object to him. As a result, your object will be dark and the background filled with bright sunlight, or better known as backlight. However, there are times when the location of the object is in the right position, backlight actually embellish your photos like the example below.
Photo credit: Chrisinhaiti

 

4. Feel free to use flash
To avoid the backlight, the most powerful way is to use a flash. You can use the flash as a "fill-in" to illuminate the object back to the sun. Quite easy, adjust the position of the flash in TTL settings, or E-TTL if available. Or if you want, you can adjust the flash exposure manually to produce the proper exposure between the object and the surrounding lighting conditions. For example, you can see the photos below. I use the flash to get the exposure right when the sun was scorching conditions.

5. Make sure there is room for Post-Processing
If it is kind of difficult lighting conditions and camera capabilities are limited, make sure you save room for post-processing or photo editing. With so many image processing applications like Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Lightroom, you can set and change the brightness, levels, exposure, and other settings so that the final image more leverage. So do not take photos with exposure
before processing.

 

After processing