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Portrait Lighting Practice

Feb 22nd, 2009 by

I went to the fabric store today and bought some heavy fabric  for use as a  backdrop to practice studio lighting. The piece I bought was only 8ft x 5ft; which greatly limited who could fill in as a subject in the shot. It took two cheese sticks and a bath, but I finally found someone that had nothing better to do. This is about as simple as it gets for a lighting set up since I currently only have the option of using one off-camera flash. My key light was a canon speedlight, shot through a translucent umbrella, with a silver reflector set up opposite to fill in just a touch highlights. I’ve worked with better… but not many. (ghostbusters quote)

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3 Responses to “Portrait Lighting Practice”

  1. ash
    February 23, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    now that is a cute dog :-)

  2. konan
    February 26, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Why does your dog always look so sad?

  3. Jean
    April 5, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    Ellie is a cheap date-two cheese sticks, she should hold out for more! Great photography, Kory.

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