Soft light and Hard light

soft light 

The persons head in the bottom with the tree above is the best example of the 2 images for the rule of third. Both images uses the rule of third well and lines everything up well along the lines. 

hard light 

You can tell hard light and soft light apart by the contrast of the photograph. Hard light has higher contrast than soft light because of the involvement of dark shadows and shade.

This image is a example of a silhouette where we used the direction of light to create a shade and control where the light was coming from.