From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics

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Pro tip: Drop everything for amazing light

Pro tip: Drop everything for amazing light

From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics

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Pro tip: Drop everything for amazing light

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Pro tip, be prepared to drop everything for amazing light. You know that amazing light's going to happen like two, three times a day around golden hour, morning, evening, blue hour, you know, that's beautiful light and it's just going to happen, but sometimes light just happens, like in the middle of the afternoon, or at noon. Sometimes, it's something as simple as sunlight coming from one direction and bouncing off of a glass building and filling itself, like amazingly, beautifully from the other direction. When you see that, just like full stop, sorry, dad's going to take some pictures for a few minutes. How about you guys run over there and get some ice cream? That's like, that's one of my favorites, like for, for two or three bucks, you can buy off all of your kids for like ten minutes, works every time. But if you build up a little political capital with your spouse and your kids, they will recognize that, you know, dad or mom just gets a little bit weird when the light gets…

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