Will Moneymaker Photography Podcast

Since painting with light is what we photographers do, we’ve discovered over all these decades how to utilize light in many different ways. When you stop to consider it, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of things we can do simply by manipulating light. We’ve learned to apply colors to lighting or to utilize the colors of the ambient lighting around us. Intensity varies — sometimes bright lighting is what we need, and other times, we seek to capture as little light as possible to focus on specific, hard-to-capture points of light, as is the case with long nighttime exposures. Color and availability are just two of three major factors concerning lighting. There is another, one that maybe we don’t pay attention to as much as we could, and it can have as dramatic an effect on our images as color and availability. This third factor is the direction or angle of the lighting. Once you consider this, you’ll see how this aspect can revolutionize your photography. Let’s look at some of the things you can do with a