From the course: Lighting with Flash: The Basics
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Lighting notebook: Window light photo shoot
From the course: Lighting with Flash: The Basics
Lighting notebook: Window light photo shoot
All right, let's take a second and go to our lighting diagrams and talk through this first shoot. I know it's very simple, but there are a couple things that are really important to remember from this, and the first is to always, always consider your ambient light as a light source. It's the first light in your bag, and that means to think about it in terms of quantity and of quality. In this little section we're really more concerned with the quality than quantity, because we're not going add any flash to it. So here we are. We've got a photographer and a subject in a room, and what I have done is take the light source as it exists and drop it right behind me. There is that open shade window. It's going to be nice, gorgeous soft light, and I'm using it sort of as an on-axis big soft box. It really doesn't matter what's behind Ramona in this instance, because I'm going to take a moveable backdrop--in this case white--and we're going to drop it right in behind her, so that negates…
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