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Portrait lighting techniques

Portrait lighting techniques

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Portrait lighting techniques

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- No matter what level of photographer you are, if you're just getting started with lighting, the whole thing can be pretty intimidating. There's the gear and it seems so complicated and there's so much to remember, and sometimes you look into lighting instruction and there's all this math. I wanted today to give you some really simple tricks you can do with a single light. And the reason I wanted to do that is because first of all, a single light doesn't cost much money. If you've been thinking that you want to get into lighting and you've been looking at the cost of strobes or even continuous lights you might've thought, oh man I don't want to spend $1,000 on a lighting kit, you don't have to. Everything I'm going to show you today is being done with a single light, including what you're seeing right now. What we have right now is a single light placed directly behind the camera and up a little bit. It's also got a piece…

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