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Portrait Lighting Learning how to control light and the subtle changes that lighting can have on your subjects.

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Portrait Lighting

Learning how to

control light and the subtle

changes that lighting can have on your

subjects.

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Environmental Portraits

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Announcement about

Self-Portrait Contest

• Feb 8th optional contest

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Studio Portrait - Poster

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Slight changes in poses can make all the difference

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Studio vs. Environmental

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Economy Studio• Shopping List

– Hardware Store• Clip on light: $7 • 100w Bulb, $2-3

– Wal-Mart • Twin to King Size Sheet,

Black and/or White – $4-12

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Background Replacement

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Rules for Portraits

• There is really a few ABSOLUTE rules–Do not put the camera down on a

table and walk away. Either…• Bless me with the camera• UNTETHER it and place it in the

drawer–Do NOT sit and spin

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Types of LightingShort

BroadButterfly

Rembrandt

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Other types of studio lighting

The position of the light affects the shape and outline of the face.

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Standard frontal lights without background and hair light.

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Sample lighting:

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We have 2 main umbrella studio lights for Fill and Key light along with a hair light and a background light.

Below is a Portable Studio

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Hair Light

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Alternative lighting

• High Key– Background is

overexposed– Some skin

tones my be slightly overexposed

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One Light

• High hair light

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Portrait Fun

Shooting pictures in a studio setting can be a lot of fun because

you have total control over the light…or lack thereof.

Be creative, loosen up, explore, bring props.

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But not too much fun

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Instructions & Tips• Shoot on both white and Black

backgrounds…starting with whatever is down first. (don’t switch back and forth)

• Shoot on Manual Focus to take pictures quicker, but don’t forget to manually focus.

• Shoot mostly vertical, with right hand on top of the camera (top of the camera to the right).

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Exposure Settings

• Exposure Mode Dial: M• Shutter Speed: 1/125• Aperture: 9.5

• To change the shutter speed, rotate the command dial (right upper corner on the back)

• To change the aperture, hold down the AV button (behind shutter release) while rotating the command dial (right upper corner on the back)

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AGAIN: Shoot verticals with HAND on top of camera…not under

• Verticals must be hand rotated…but I can do them in a batch as long as they are going the same direction. The above strip of images would require two passes.