And then there??™s the fact that your eyes have a much wider
CHAPTER 5: Flash and Lighting 101
range of exposure values than a camera does. When you press the shutter release on your camera,
it has to choose a single exposure level and try to depict the entire scene with that one reading??”
regardless of how dramatically the light changes throughout the picture. As I??™ve mentioned, it is
a miracle that we can get good pictures at all. That said, there are many strategies we can employ
to get great pictures outdoors.
Beware of the Sun
When you take pictures outdoors, always check your watch. By that I mean that there are
better and worse times during the day to take pictures. Perhaps the worst time of all is midday,
when the sun is directly overhead. The noon sun creates extremely harsh shadows and casts
unflattering light for almost any kind of photographic project. People look their worst when
you photograph them between about 10:00 in the morning and 2:00 in the afternoon, when
the extremely bright, overhead light (particularly in the summertime) can tend to overwhelm a
digital camera. If you??™re shooting on a cloudy or overcast day, though, even midday is fair game
since there??™s no direct sunlight to interfere with your photos.
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