Creating beautiful lighting doesn't require a studio full of gear or an army of assistants. As the authors show, the savvy photographer can create outstanding images with natural light. Learn how to shoot in manual mood so you can control every aspect of your image capture, control the depth of field to get the look you've envisioned, design black and white and infrared images, get the "perfect" exposure with ambient light, adjust the camera's contrast, saturation, and white balance settings to get outstanding results straight from your camera, add polarizers and graduated neutral-density filters to refine your images when shooting with available light, expand your shooting options by adding a reflector to your setup, and take the next step by combining available light with flash.