Lichtsetzung für Einsteiger - Welches Licht kannst du nutzen?

Hello everyone, Matthias here. Welcome to a new quickie episode in which I would like to talk to you about how to approach light in such a basic way. Which light should you use at all? What is good here? Don't worry, I don't want to make it so exhaustive about what is which light and how it works, what and something else. I have an extra video about that. I have linked it to you below. Don't worry, you can take a closer look if you want. My thought was now just to choose two or three natural light sources with which you can photograph almost everything. Especially now in favor of portrait photography. But basically you can also use it for other things at the moment. We're just going to start here from the probably cheapest light situation. We don't have a ceiling lamp yet. You could maybe just turn it on to make it even worse. Let's just go out now, because no matter how good your ISO range is, no matter what your camera has on it and if you shoot in the open, no matter, your camera needs light for good photos and the light has to come from the right direction. That's why it just comes with it. The first topic is, you have already seen it so easily in the transition, we have more light out here and the picture looks a little better right away. The first story I would recommend here is the easiest at all. Everyone at home has, I assume, window light. It doesn't matter if you say you have bright sun out here like me at the moment or if we have something like that back there that just comes in so scattered. In both cases it is so that we can go here and can use a nice, mostly soft, directed light. And we're just going to do that now, because we're shooting the whole scenario. We're coming over here now. If you look now, I have a nice, straight, directed light from the front. The background becomes a little bit darker. Yes, we don't have a window in the back. So we have a window in the back. That doesn't mean 100%. But it's a nice thing. If I want to control that now, if I want to make the light strength stronger or less strong, I can use a curtain. That's one option, if you have something transparent like we have here. Or you just go a little bit closer or further away. The further I go away, the darker I get at the moment. That's a theme, you can definitely see it. Light waste topic. And you can do a lot here. And even if the market is here in the middle of the window and is actually on the way for the light, you can't see it on me. So it wouldn't be as if it would cast such a blatant shadow or something. It all scatters a little bit through the area. But it's still so beautifully directed that if I say what I want, we'll do it a little bit from the side or something like that, that I have a light direction that stands out a bit here. It's a little darker on that side. I have a nice three-dimensional light path in portraits. Absolutely terrific. But if someone says, hey, that's too much for me, or maybe I don't have a curtain and now the sun is shining in there, that's a bit unfavorable. Then let's go to the other side. Now that we've switched to the other window, we have a problem, of course. The background is much too bright. You should also see that the windows in the back are a bit burnt out. That is, of course, suboptimal. That means I would try to avoid that. If you're photographing somewhere in a room, try to make it as low as possible and that this depth is also dark. That we don't have a problem here, that somehow more light comes in from the other side or something like that, because it also works against that, that we get a darker background. That's a bit suboptimal here. You could theoretically go here and make all the windows dark here. Let's just do it very briefly. It's relatively easy. Now we have a darker background, we have such a nice separation from the other scene and I'm taking a little off. I don't know exactly what it looks like on the video, but I guess because there's just no light coming in from behind and because I'm much closer to the light source than the actual background. Very simple light waste. The further away I am from the light source, the darker the moment becomes. You can use this technique wonderfully for portrait photography. You just have to be careful that there is no light coming in from behind or from the side or something like that. I like to vary a little bit with it. Get something semi-transparent as a curtain here. Something in the direction where you can look through a bit and just do it in front of the windows. Then you have a nice soft light source. You can also vary a bit again. Curtain up, curtain closed or something in that direction. That's indoor. Mega cool. What do we do outdoor? Let's take a look. Of course, this applies to window light, not just for windows. It's basically any opening that you have in any way. You can also take a door or something like that. So what fits in at the moment is pretty cool. Outside, this theme looks a bit different now. We often have a lot of light. Now here, it's midday sun. It's kind of like two o'clock. Then it's of course very, very unfavorable to take photos here. Especially if I'm here, what do I know, to make sure I don't get run over, standing in the middle of the sun. If you don't have any other choice, you can use it. You can also do such tricks, that you put on sunglasses or something like that, to not have the blatant shadows underneath. What I would simply recommend for the sake of simplicity, is to say, hey, go into the shade. That's the easiest thing ever. Look here. So, a little bit of the... I'm doing it on purpose, I'm taking a little distance. A little bit of the escape in here. Yes, there are cars here. It doesn't matter, you can look for a shadow somewhere. What is very, very important here, however, is to try to make it as neutral as possible. It happens to me often enough here, because you go to the park, stand under a tree, you want to take a wedding photo. And after the sun is shining down everywhere here, and of course it somehow reflects back up, you often have the color of the ground and the walls in your face. And that makes the wedding photo look a little green. That's very unfavorable and not so easy to get out of the white balance or other techniques. Therefore, try to make it as neutral as possible in the shade. You should also make sure that you have more shade available. So it goes a little further back there. We don't have that bright sun right away, because just putting the model in the shade and the sun shining down like something else is a bit... Then you have the same problem as with the window earlier, that light came in through the window from the other side and you got light from the front, but the background was completely overshadowed. Make sure that you have as much shade as possible. The less shade, i.e. the less sun hits the picture, the less bright the background is. Now I have a third point and it is now much more advanced than we now have something like window light or something like that. It's still relatively easy to control on your camera, but we want to photograph in backlight. That's always my point, my style, where I say, wow, that looks mega nice. Accordingly, the third light, the third approach, look for backlight, look for sunset. Sunset in the sense that you wait until the sun has almost set and is so low that you can hide it behind objects. Behind trees, behind houses, that it just shines a little bit over it or of course behind your motif, that also works. And the way you have shade from the front, you can also brighten it up with a reflector from the front. That works too. I said it's a bit more advanced to get a little balance. But the further the sun goes down, the weaker it gets. And if you can still hide it behind any object on the occasion, it can be that it still shines really cool over it. And that looks really cool. All right, that's it for today. If you want to learn more about light, then of course I have a light course for you. Just take a look under the video. I definitely linked it for you. Or if you say, hey, cool, but I'm not quite there yet. Learning to photograph would be really cool. I have the Photography Masterclass, which really takes you from beginner to advanced. I don't want to say it takes you to a professional, but it takes you very, very far with many practical insights on the subject of travel, photography at night, portrait photography. I have an incredible amount of practice with me that you can also use directly what I show you. So check it out and we'll see you again in the next video.