Shopping Bag Portrait Light
At last, point your camera and shoot away! If you have done everything correctly, the resulting picture will feature a lot of soft light in the foreground and a substantially darker background.
This type of lighting is very flattering; it never fails to leave the model thrilled and asking for more!
You find the long version of this tip and many more in Good Light! Magazine Issue 02.
I wish you good light!
Michael
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Model: Fredau Hoekstra
Photo: Michael Zelbel
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Issue 15: Urban
In Issue 15 we explore urban environments and turn them into your studio. We also feature one last article in our series for your Spicy Holiday Photo Tips. We thought that you probably don’t want to miss the video of that article. So here it …
Your Basic Lighting Kit: A Spin Around the Block
So you bit the bullet and spent ~$100 for the stuff needed to turn your hot shoe flash into a mini portable studio lighting system. What do you with the box of stuff the UPS guy just dropped onto your dorstep? Where do you start?
That is exactly the gap we explore whenever I teach a beginner’s lighting class. So today we are going to walk through a “first steps” exercise.
Using EXIF information in photos online
How did the pro shoot that photo? Chances are Google tells you in the right sidebar of image search. Like many photo communities Google provides you with the EXIF information of the photo given, that it is embedded in the file. Just that you can actually search for nearly every photo on Google. If you don’t find one particular photo, then at least Google is coming up with very similar images. Awesome for cases when you are wondering about appropriate camera settings for a given scene.
I wish you good light!
Michael
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Model: Coco
Photo: Michael Zelbel
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