Ambient light photos are really cool.
Sometimes I try to shoot with only the light available, even when there is hardly any light at all.
The images created are often very dramatic... like this shot taken at yesterday's wedding.
The lighting at the reception hall was fairly dim but the carving station had two bright spot lights to help the carver see. Well, I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to take a photo of that!
Although a lot of the image is in the darkened areas, that just adds more drama to the image. The people being served aren't really the key elements here. It's the carver and the food being carved that are the main subjects. The carver is nicely lit by the spill of the light shining on the food which of course gets the majority of the light highlighting it nicely. The food area is slightly overexposed which is really nice because it conveys the intensity of the spot lights. Perfectly even exposure here would not give the same feeling of high-intensity spot lights. Sometimes breaking the rules works just fine.
Photo Data: This digital image was taken with a Fujifilm S3 Pro 12.3 MP camera set to shoot JPG images at ISO 1600 (the equivalent of very fast film). The lens was a Nikon 12-24mm f 4.0 DX set at 14mm. The exposure was taken handheld at 1/20 sec at f 4.0.
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