Sunset lightning

            Sunset light is a beautiful light while taking portraits (even though everyone has its own opinion), however, to be able to use the light to its fullest capacity it's important to know some basic "rules" of how the light works. To give me some help with this I read this article How to Use Sunset Light to Light Portraits. Christina N Dickson talks about three different lights, Front Light, Side Light, and Back Light. 
            Front light is when your subject is facing the light and you as the photographer has your back toward the light. "The light will brightly illuminate your subject, bringing out stunning catchlights." A problem that can occur with this light is that it can make your models pupils to small, if that happens you can ask your model to close his/her eyes and open them right before you snap the shot.
            Side Light, you get side light when you ask your model to turn so that only one shoulder is facing the light and then turning their face 3/4 degrees into the light. This will give you "soft transfer edges between the highlight and shadows". It will also add depth to your portrait.

           Back Light is when the sun is behind the model and you are in front of the model. This could give you really good silhouette but you can also overexpose the portrait so the model is evenly lit, this will cause the background to be overexposed and the highlight will be blown out, but it gives the picture a cool effect, and by decreasing the saturation level would make it stand out as an image eve more, but that's just my opinion.   

          Since I'm not a professional photographer I have not yet learn to appreciate the use of flashes (since I do not have the right equipment) however, I still like to take pictures without using any flash or strobes, but one thing that I think would be good to have is a reflector, this will eliminate the worse shadows that I usually get in my photos.