Hard Light vs Soft Light: Understanding Wedding Lighting
Think of a beautifully decorated venue with bad lights! If you’ve been there before, you probably already know it’s a wedding photographer’s nightmare! Lighting in photography can dictate the mood, message, and emotion of any scene. It is one of the building blocks of creating a photograph. How you use it and what type of light you use could significantly help you transform your images. Different types of lighting work for different genres of photography. The two distinct types of lighting scenarios that are often used, based on the quality of light, are hard light and soft light. And learning the key differences between the two could allow you to have a better understanding of what works best for you and your wedding photography style. In this blog, we take a deep dive into the hard light vs soft light discussion – so let’s get started!
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