From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
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Lighting a portrait with an umbrella
From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
Lighting a portrait with an umbrella
- Now sometimes you want to have one light to not just light the model but also light the background. That's where this beautiful humongous seven foot parabolic umbrella comes in. Now it's a parabolic because we're shooting through it. Now keep in mind sometimes people say shoot through umbrellas and you may get the wrong understanding of what it is, it's not you shooting your camera through the umbrella. What you're doing is you're using the light to shoot through the umbrella. That's going to illuminate the scene that I want to take for our photos. So a shoot through umbrella means the light is shooting through it. Now it being seven foot, this means that this is going to shoot beautiful light across our subject and then we're going to make sure we have some of it on that background. Now if I want the background to be pure white, then I'm going to move her closer to the background, move the light in. If I want it to be an off gray, I'll move her a little bit away from the background…
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