Lighting makes the biggest difference in whether a photo is beautiful and eye-catching or dull and dreary, and for amateur photographers it can be the hardest aspect of photography. Professional photo studios are filled with expensive lighting equipment that is out of reach for most of us, so we have to learn to work with what we’ve got. The No. 1 light source at our disposal is the sun, so unless you are using a lightbox to shoot something small, or you are forced indoors shooting an event