Turning Bad Light Into Great Light with Michael Corsentino

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The one thing you can count on when you’re shooting on location is that you can’t count on anything . . . except a variety of challenging lighting situations. These all fall squarely into what I like to refer to broadly as “bad light.” Bad light is any quality of light that is inconsistent with the lighting desired for the images you’re about to capture. This can be anything from harsh, mid-day sunlight, to blown-out backgrounds, to underexposed foregrounds, to gray overcast days lacking light, direction and contrast. Essentially, bad light is the light you’re just given rather than the light you actually want. More often than not, what mother nature provides isn’t what’s going to work best for our images. As you’ve probably experienced more than once, natural lighting conditions are as unpredictable as they are changeable; as the saying goes, “subject to change without notice.” As working photographers, we need to prepared to deal with these situations.