let there be light

when I tell people that light matters in photography, they really don't understand why.  So instead of explaining, let me just show everyone.


(If you haven't noticed already, glass is transparent)

I wouldn't necessarily call this either bad or good lighting, but it is boring in my opinion. This is how glass normally looks - what's so special about it? nothing.


So let me change the positioning of the lights (and nothing else) and let's see what happens:



'nuff said. no photoshop or post processing on either pictures.  Light matters.