Video: Background with a Single Light in Portrait Photography

The background is important to consider when using a single light in portrait photography. Learn how the background effects the lighting with expertise from a professional photographer in this free photography video.

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meotch Jan 22, 2009

GREAT video - thank you. i learned some new things here that were very helpful and informative. i really liked the way that we got to see how the shot was set up, as well as what the end result looks like. well done!

meotch Jan 22, 2009

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In this segment, I want to talk about the distance of the subject to the background and the light 'cause you can really achieve different effects. I've got a white backdrop set up and you can go from very close to white to all the way to black, depending on where you position the subject to the - on the background and with the light. And right now I'm just - what I'm going to do is kind of - I'm going to bring the, kind of point the soft box and bring it pretty close to her and the background. It makes you fairly white. In this segment I'm going to pull Sandy a little further away from the background and I'm going to move the light. And what we're going to do is get a much more of a gray this time. And now I'm going to pull Sandy pretty much off the backdrop, and far away from it, and then in order to try and get as close to black. Now getting black out of like any other color backdrop depends how far you are away from the background, and then also on how much stuff you have for the light to bounce off of. I have pretty high ceilings in here, but my walls are white and we're not that far away so we might not be able to get complete black, but we'll get pretty close.

Background with a Single Light in Portrait Photography

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