Hot Spots and On-the-spot Shots

If you spend your days at festivals and people-gathering events, you are bound to find yourself shooting one-of-a-kind wonders, and several wonder whys. It's a REAL good thing you're shooting digital then, because its that much less film and developing chemical involved.
Spontaneous shooting will get you some pictures that have people giving you their email addresses, so you can send them the award-winning facials and other types of pictures. As I have said, it is important that the face be the brightest object in the picture, or you won't see much detail in it. The visual preeminence of the subject is not just fame or vanity, but making sure the viewer can see all that the photographer is seeing, in terms of picture detail. If there is a reflection of sun off a windshield or other shiny surface, be sure the camera will respond to it, and lessen its sensitivity to light because of it.
Also hard to imagine is how, in a dark space, lighter objects take the stage and cause the camera to not show what you want. These are called hot spots, and they happen with sun reflections and bright objects in dark spaces. The camera is out hunting for light here, and it's going to respond to the brightest thing it sees. It doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to the idea of what's being focused on.
Another factor in this realm of thought is shooting into a shiny surface when someone or something is in front of it. Put a little angle, at least 15 degrees either way, into the shot, so the image of the photographer is not also in the shot, flash or not. Approach the shiny surface at an angle, and you will have a better chance at a pleasing shot.
On the spot shots are the ones you could never have planned, they just happened, and you got lucky. That happens to every grade of photographer. It's those shots that are often the most valuable ones you can get. Focus, lighting, all those factors figure in. Details are the guts of whatever you do- take care of them, they take care of you. Ignore em, and they burn you, it's that simple.
This artistic venture of image making with a camera has its own little set of things to watch out for, and when you do, you usually get a good shot. If you can do it ALL the time, then there must be a star in the East coming to set right over you!