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Shooting subjects at night with reflected light

Shooting subjects at night with reflected light

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Shooting subjects at night with reflected light

- On the way over here, I noticed we were just at the baby health mural and there's these reflective doors that kind of seals off what might have been a store or something, but as cars go by, the reds lights and the white lights create kind of this interesting pattern of light and I think that if I can get people walking by it I think it would be kind of interesting, so I'm going to head over there right now and plant myself and see if that works. Hey, you got to try. You don't know it's going to work until it tries. This is the kind of thing though, I've seen happen in different places. As a matter of fact, as a photographer, often I'll see something and it reminds me of a situation that I experienced half a world away. This particular situation reminds me of a place in Africa that I did a similar kind of a shoot, so experience is really going to help you out. The more you're shooting, the more your ideas are going to come to you and the more you're going to be able to realize what…

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