Natural Light Photography | Window Light

© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Lunch Time at McDonald’s | 24mm | ISO 100 | f/4.0 | 1/160

This is just a typical shot of our family having lunch at McDonald’s, yes I know fast food isn’t good for our health and I should not encourage my childrens having fast food all the time but sometime I just wanted a quick meals after going out with my family. Enough about fast food and I will not go further about it, I just wanted to write about window light here, this is a photography blog after all.

Talking about window light, I’ve always love it, it can be soft and it can be hard sometimes, depending on where the window is and depending on the position of the sun at the time of shootings. Whenever I go out with my family and decided to take a break in the restaurant, I prefer to choose a place next to the window, so that I can use the window light to illuminate my family.

To use window light does not mean that we have to be really close to the window, we can sit far away from the window and still got the light but the problem is that the lighting will not be so strong and we have to raise the ISO to get proper exposure if our position is far from the window, so the reason I prefer to sit next to the window is because I wanted to use Low ISO, like the picture above, the lighting was quite strong and I mange to use ISO 100 to get the shot.

One last thing, whenever you going out with your family having a meals, don’t forget to take a picture of them or get yourself in the frames as well, yes the table may look messy, cluttered but believed me, sometime a picture like this will be memorable in the future, greater than your beautiful sunset or sunrise picture. Your children’s will grow up, we will get old but photograph never grows old.

I like to end this post with great quote from Albert Einstein, it got nothing to do with window light but a photograph;

“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”

– Albert Einstein –