Digital Photography School (DPS) recently released Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool by photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich.
This beautiful e-book is so inspiring it just could be the thing to get you out of a rut,take off your flash and go outside and create amazing natural light photos with your camera.
Kanashkevich takes you thru a visual journey of captivating images he's created explaining the types of natural lighting scenarios you will encounter and how he approached the situation as he photographed it and how he improved the images in post processing to better bring out shadows and highlights.
Looking at his images I imagined that some photographers would see certain scenes and instantly pull out a flash unit killing the whole meaning of the situation or turning dusk into a boring overly lit image that lost the whole point of why it should have been photographed.
The ebook is beautifully laid out in ebook format which you can read on your computer or any of your devices like an iPad,iPod or iPhone.
I've not photographed the incredible situations that Kanashkevich has but I've photographed hundreds of concerts back in the day.I'd notice that the lighting designer often was very skilled in positioning the color,and type of light that went with each song and perfectly sculpted the singer or band int the most expressive light.Then comes along a photographer with a blinding flash in a quiet moment only to wake up the dead with a blast of light but killing off any resemblance of what the stage show was meant to look like.
Though this book does not cover that type of situation,it was a reminder to be mindful of what is before you and creating the best of what you can with just your camera and lens.
Mother nature is only one light that twists and turns,hides,wraps around and bends and can light as no human can!
This book is so inspiring,I will put my new Olympus OM-D and Leica lenses thru my own natural light adventures after reading this inspiring book.
For more info and purchase info,click on the link below.
http://digital-photography-school.com/naturallight