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Great Portraits – Simple Lighting

A while back I published a short article about a portrait lighting technique that I use a lot to one degree or another when making a portrait. To make a long story short the technique uses a corner as a background. The surface facing the light source will be light and happens to be on the shadow side of the subject. The opposite surface will be darker and on the highlight side of the subject.

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Keeping it Simple

A friend asked me to take a couple of portraits for her sporting a new hair style. Not next week or next month but now. Hey you have a camera, you take a lot of pictures, how hard can it be? She needed them for something or another, I forget. At first I started to make excuses about the location (her living room), I don’t have any of the stuff I need, the light is no good, blah, blah, etc. When I realized that she was not going to...