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<blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 93980" data-attributes="member: 6548">&quot;Natural lighting&quot; huh?&nbsp; I assume you are talking about shooting with available light?If you are talking about portraiture then the answer is you do not need too much light.&nbsp; What you want is soft diffused light. This best thing here is to shoot with the sun behind the camera, maybe an overcast sky, and one those fold up reflectors.&nbsp; The problem with natural available light is that the contrast tends to be weak so you have to compensate by underexposing just a tad.&nbsp; You can use your flash to bounce the light of a ceiling or wall to get good results also. If you use to much light or your light source is to close to your subject you'll get chalky faces and black shadows...you'll see this a lot with beginners and a bunch of studio lights.I've never really bought into that Leica &quot;glow&quot; that everyone talks about but I do think that modern lens formulas tend to be somewhat sanitary and sterile compared to the old lenses.&nbsp; They may be sharper but they lose something if you ask me...maybe it is the &quot;glow&quot; that they lose.Research the golden hour...light at dawn and at dusk for landscape and other stuff too...that kind of light is great. As far as white balance goes if you don't have the light right first then WB doesn't really matter because the snap is going to be nil.&nbsp; I always use around 5500 K or the flash WB setting on my digital it imparts the yellow orange warm glow or when indoors I use a cooler setting like incandescent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eye-level, post: 93980, member: 6548"] "Natural lighting" huh? I assume you are talking about shooting with available light? If you are talking about portraiture then the answer is you do not need too much light. What you want is soft diffused light. This best thing here is to shoot with the sun behind the camera, maybe an overcast sky, and one those fold up reflectors. The problem with natural available light is that the contrast tends to be weak so you have to compensate by underexposing just a tad. You can use your flash to bounce the light of a ceiling or wall to get good results also. If you use to much light or your light source is to close to your subject you'll get chalky faces and black shadows...you'll see this a lot with beginners and a bunch of studio lights. I've never really bought into that Leica "glow" that everyone talks about but I do think that modern lens formulas tend to be somewhat sanitary and sterile compared to the old lenses. They may be sharper but they lose something if you ask me...maybe it is the "glow" that they lose. Research the golden hour...light at dawn and at dusk for landscape and other stuff too...that kind of light is great. As far as white balance goes if you don't have the light right first then WB doesn't really matter because the snap is going to be nil. I always use around 5500 K or the flash WB setting on my digital it imparts the yellow orange warm glow or when indoors I use a cooler setting like incandescent. [/QUOTE]

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