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Photography is all about light. Direction, color, hardness,
it's all about light. To control what happens in your
photograph you must control the light. What does that mean?
Let's look at some examples of where light used well makes
for some great photographs. Assignment: What did the
artists below do to get these photos? Do you think they
were just lucky or was it technique? What kind of planning
does it take to create photographs like these? Look at some of the photos but save some time to explore Flickr's light clusters: Light || Shadow, Sun & Reflection || Silhouette || Backlit 
This image from Barbara Fischer's
Flickr stream uses backlight to bring out color and
texture of the leaf. Backlight acts to frame the image with
light and creates sharp definitions of interest within the
photograph. Take a look at the backlight
pool on flickr for more examples.
The next photo, also from Spoedman's Flickr
stream uses side lighting to paint the little girl's
face and side with light. The strong side light creates
depth with the shadows it produces. Painting your subject
with light is as much about creating darkness and shadow as
it is about light. Balance and tension in a photograph can
be created by line, texture, color and light.As light and dark create tension and depth, so do colors that are opposites, or complementary colors.  
A true silhouette leaves only shadows of the subject
framing
the image with light. This photo from Arunan's flickr
stream is a good example as is this second photo from
his collection.
Be sure to take some time and browse the Flickr
collection of silhouette
tagged photos.When you combine the golden colors available only in the magic hours of early dawn or evening light with back lighting you can get some great photos like the one below from "Your Guide's" Flickr stream. 
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Last modified: Friday, 21 March 2008, 01:30 AM