Frontal lighting isn’t just for portraits of birds. It also happens to be one of the best types of light for photographing action.

Frontal lighting, while the easiest type of light to work with in wildlife photography, can also be the most boring. The one big exception to this, however, is bird photography!

Several years ago I wrote a book called Mastering Light. In preparation for the new and updated version of this book, I am publishing the entire first version right here in a series of articles for free.