Amateur Photographer

Light touch

How many of us really appreciate the different qualities of light during the course of a single day? The reason you might not have noticed how light changes hour by hour is because the human eye is wonderfully adaptable, continually compensating for varying conditions. But learn how to see the light, and respond to its subtle changes, and your pictures will improve dramatically.

Colour of light

Natural light is made up of all the colours of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Each has a different wavelength – short at the blue end of the spectrum, long at the red end. Mix all the colours and we get what

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