Modify Light by Subtracting It

Skillfully used, sunlight can be as flexible as studio light. Here is my fourth camera and lighting technique for making that bold stroke necessary for the quantum leap from ordinary to excellent in your action shots:

Outdoor Photography Lighting Technique No. 4: Subtract Light

Sometimes more can be gained by subtracting from the light. Most photographers are familiar with extracting polarized light, haze, and other assorted light waves with filters. Nature itself provides another form of light reduction in open shade, known by many and used by few. This image was captured from the shade of a giant boulder.