Saturday, March 20, 2010

Natural Light Portrait Photography

September 21, 2009 by Alec  
Filed under News, People

theDudeThe timing of this article, Shooting with Available Light, could not be more perfect and I think the author makes some excellent points.  I was on a trainwreck of a natural light shoot just a few days ago, photographing in hard early afternoon light.  I started with a strobe…ok, fine, but a bit stifling on creativity.  Moved to on camera flash, but very difficult to manage in that bright a light, and finished with a scrim and flash.  What I wanted the entire time was JUST A SCRIM AND REFLECTOR, but there was only me.  Moral of the story, shooting natural light is fantastic with a few modifiers, but its best to have one, if not two, assistants to work with those modifiers

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