Finding Light

Gretchen

This summer I participated in an online class entitled The Magic of Light, which was a lot of fun! Here are a couple from the class. The object was to understand and capture Rim light, haze, back light, flare and "no light" as well as being cognoscente of where light is and how to find it.

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3. Technically "no light". Just as we arrived at the beach a massive amount of clouds rolled in which obliterated the sunset.

zoomer

Looks like a work in progress.....watch your backgrounds.
The light in 3 is perfect light for portraits.

jmphotocraft

2 seems to be trendy with wedding photogs these days and personally I really don't care for it. I dunno, I like to see subjects' faces, I'm weird like that.

divamum

Hehehe - I love flare. Not always, not in all contexts, but for an "artistic" portrait, I absolutely adore it. It's certainly a huge part of the "lifestyle" vibe, too, soi f that's a kind of shooting you do, flare is where it's at

I think these are excellent lighting studies - nicely done! Particularly nice job on the first one - did you add any fill flash, or use a reflector, or was there something nearby which bounced the light back onto her face so prettily?

Gretchen

Thanks Divamum, I'm glad you get what I was doing here. The course was quite challenging and I learned a great deal. If I were to copy and paste your remark about the first shot it's almost word for word question the instructor asked. All I did was adjust the exposure a tiny bit using the radial filter in LR. We were standing on the driveway with the sun setting behind, that was my reflector.