From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
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Photo review: Lighting examples
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
Photo review: Lighting examples
Well here what we're going to do is take some time and look at a few images, which will show us some of the variety of ways that we can work with natural and available light. You know, photographers are fond of getting together and showing photographs, whether in a theater or in a classroom and looking at those. I think this can be a really helpful way to gain some insight and some knowledge and even a bit of inspiration, especially when it comes to light. So here we're to go ahead and turn off the lights and view a few photographs. One of the first photographs that we're going to look at is a photograph of one of my colleague's office. Now he's not present, but sometimes I find it interesting to try to create a portrait of a person without the person in the frame, and that's what I'm trying to do here. Well, more important to our conversation is light. Here we can see his office is simply lit by that window. Now window light provides us really nice, soft light, and we're going to…
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