From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
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Photo review: Working with light
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
Photo review: Working with light
Well it's one thing to see lights. It's another thing to find it and work with it. Here what I want to do is take a look at a handful of photos from some different photo shoots and explore how we can find and work with lights. Let's go ahead and turn off the lights and take a look at some images. Well in this first photograph we are going to see a picture that I took for a person who is a lead role in a film. And we're there meeting up in his house as he was putting his shoes on in the hall. I thought it was kind of interesting context. You can see it's lit by the window. We actually made some fascinating photos here in this scenario, but what I wanted to do was get outside. So we got outside and we went down in the front of his house and I noticed that there is white driveway, white concrete. When I saw that I thought okay, this is perfect. We went and opened his garage and hung a little drop cloth behind him and that white concrete is going to bounce light back up on to the subject.…
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