When you are taking a photo you need to be aware of your use of lighting. To make a picture look good you need to be aware of where your light is coming from, and whether it is helping or hurting your photo. A good photo uses lighting to help it look more real.
There are two kinds of lighting, natural and man-made. Natural lighting is when you use things like the sun, and moon to light your picture. Natural lighting is good when you are shooting outside. If natural light is not enough or you are in a place where you have almost no natural lighting, you can use man-made lighting. Man-made lighting is using flashlights, studio lights, lightbulbs, or even your camera's flash to light your picture. Man-made lighting is great when you are in a dark or poorly lit room. Nether one is better than the other, you just have to look at which one will help you photo the most.
In this photo, I used the flash from my camera (man-made lighting) to light the subject. This is a picture of a combine header.
On this picture I placed my subject at a place where the sun (natural lighting) would highlight certain features of her face. While at the same time, the shade from the trees above create a shadow.
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