Featured:: Allergies; Grilling Guide; eHow Now Blog

Umbrellas in Single Light Studio Photography

Umbrellas are a great tool when working with a single light in studio photography. Find out more about the efficiency of umbrellas with expertise from a professional photographer in this free photography video.

- Back Light in Single Light Studio Photography
- Background with a Single Light in Portrait Photography

Comments

Video Transcript

In this segment we're going to talk about lighting with a umbrella. Umbrellas are great. They're very efficient as you can see, but they cast a lot of light over a very wide area. So you don't get as much definition. You have to really, really move it around if you want to get it to get it to the side and also cast a lot of light, light in your background. I like to when I'm shooting at them, I like to have them relatively straight on. Maybe just a little bit off to the side to have a little bit of definition from one side to the other. But let me just kind of show you, I'm going to kind of position this to one side. I usually use umbrellas when I shoot multiples of people because I want to get a large, you know, spread over somebody. This actually, you know, kind of the industry standard in terms of getting a nice even light on somebody. In this segment I'm going to talk about bringing a white card in on our umbrella. That works really well when you have some heavy shadows on one side of the face and if you want to really even out the illumination even more.

Follow eHow: Follow @eHow

Umbrellas in Single Light Studio Photography

Comments

Related Ads

Related Articles & Videos