Light is what allows us to see. It is what shapes and colors every object we can see with out eyes, it creates depth, mood, and color. The word photography comes from “photo” or “light” and “graphy” or “writing”, so photography essentially means “light writing” .The objective of this tutorial is to learn how to see light and use it to our advantage and create interesting and exciting photos. At the end of this tutorial you should have a basic understanding of the following fundamentals of light:
Exposure -how bright a scene is and how it effects our image.
Quality - how focused or diffuse light is.
Colour - the color of the light in an image.
Direction - where is the light coming from?
Highlight - the brightest part of the image
Shadow - the darkest part of the image.
Contrast - The difference between the bright part of an image and the dark part of an image
EXAMPLES OF EXPERIMENTING WITH LIGHT:
--White light is made up of 7 different colours. When those colours are reflected off of an object, the object appears to be white. The seven colours, and their order, can be remembered by the acronym Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain- which indicates the colours: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.