Monday, February 28, 2011
Mixed Lighting
Location lighting often presents the challenge of balancing the natural and artificial light. This image is really split lighting with the right of the model being window light and camera left being a medium softbox at 90 degrees. And remember that no matter how well a subject is lit we need to consider and interesting perspective and compositional elements!
A little closer with the split lighting pattern...
Here the softbox was moved to camera right to mimic the window light and giving a Rembrandt lighting pattern...
A little clowning around by our model and Alan Thornton ( Instructor ). Even though the shutter speed is only 1/30 sec. the motion is frozen by the short flash duration...
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