From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
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Seeing and working with natural light
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
Seeing and working with natural light
What an absolutely beautiful, beautiful afternoon! The light is bright and beautiful and a lot of times we see scenes like this and we just are taken away by the breathtaking beauty. Yet, you take your sunglasses off and you can't really see straight. It's almost like you start to get a headache because there's too much light. One of the things that we need to do as portrait photographers is start to think about how our light affects our subject. And also, how we can light our subject in different way with natural and available light? And to do that, we have to become aware of the light that we have to work with. Now, some people will say, "You know what, my subject is light," and I say, with portraits it's the other way around. My subject is the person. And then it's how do I want to light that person? What kind of light do I want to position them in, in order to tell a particular story? Now there are those who say you should never take pictures at noon. is too harsh, it's too much…
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