The sun makes Laurent shine :: Mmegi Online

While most people see the sun as a just a source of light, photographer Isabel Laurent, exploits it to improve her camera work. She suggests that with some landscapes, having good natural lighting can even be more important than the choice of subject itself. And, Laurent, who has been in Botswana since 2003, has learnt how to achieve the right light for her subject by utilising the unique qualities of a particular time of day.

“I’m a natural light photographer. I enjoy exploring it and what it is capable of doing to an object,” she says. One would think the flash on her Cannon camera is for mere decoration, especially when she does her art photography. “I would rather use the shadow to create all the light. I don’t always want to see the object. I want to see what it can become,” she says.

The ardent snapper grew up around cameras as her parents had a photography business.

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