Sunlight in the middle of the day isn’t always perpendicular to the earth – or at least, not the whole time. If you look around, there’s usually a slight angle one way or another – and this angle is important, because while you can do wonderful things with post-production, creating and changing light isn’t one of them. Yes, you can improve the light in a scene, but creating it from scratch is very difficult, so you have to get the best capture you can in-camera
If the sun is behind you, then what you’re looking at is top-lit and front-lit, and there will be very little shadow or relief. Look to the left or the right, however, and you’ll see some shadows forming. Is this a little more interesting? Obviously,…
