Side Lighting in Photography

Side lighting in photography creates captivating contrasts between light and shadow splitting the subject in half. This post shows you how to shoot using side lighting.

02. Side Lighting plays with shadows

Side lighting in photography creates captivating contrasts between light and shadow. It literally can spilt the subject in half. If you want to play with shadow, you can create some interesting photographs!

This image is shows an example of side lighting.
Side Lighting

How to Shoot with Side Lighting

Place the light directly to the side of the subject.

This image shows an example of side lighting, hand written diagram and light placement.
Side Lighting with diagram and light placement

Not only can you use side lighting indoors with a artificial lighting set up, you can use also use natural lighting. For example, you can place your subject next to a window with the light shining in.

This image shows side lighting of a Photo by Raphael Brasileiro: https://www.pexels.com/photo/smiling-young-man-leaning-on-wall-6441513/
Photo by Raphael Brasileiro

Learn to how to look at light and observe how shadows fall on your subject. You might just capture the perfect photo!

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