White Cards in Single Light Studio Photography

Video Transcript

"In this segment I just want to show you I've kind of adjusted the light where I want to with her right now. This is kind of, kind of like a final single light without a, without a white card, just a single reflector and I really like the wrap that I have on this, and I just, I think that I like where she is in the background it's kind of put in a nice light gray and it's just a nice simple well-lit picture. In this segment I'm just going to bring in a white card into the picture. White cards are great for bouncing light back in and evening up the illumination on someone's face. It's particularly good when you're photographing somebody if they have eyes that are inset pretty deeply. Let me grab a white card and I'll show you what the difference. You can see when you bring that in you really get a nice illumination on both sides of the face and a lot of the same things apply to the white card in terms of where you place it. It's very proportional. The light that bounces off is very proportional to the light that's coming off the sides of the soft box. You can just, you know, darken it or lighten it by taking it closer or further back from the subject."