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Sometimes you will find a spot outdoors that has nice side lighting but the contrast between the shadow side and the highlight side is too great to print onto photographic paper properly. With digital you must meter carefully and expose for the highlights. I have noticed that with my Canon if the shadows are two stops less than the highlight side they will have lots of noise in them when printed onto photographic paper. There are a couple of ways I use to bring the shadow side of a subject's face up to a printable level. For one or two people a silver reflector works great. I clip it onto a light stand (or have an assistant hold it) and meter the shadow side while moving the reflector in or out until it is anywhere from 1 2/3rds to 1 stop less than the highlight reading. This is what I did in the image below. My reflector is a piece of cardboard that measures 20 x 24. It was a box the lab shipped a print to me in. I flattened it out, cut off the tabs and glued silver "Cracked Ice" onto it. This can be purchased from any prom supply place like Stumps or Anderson's. You could also use aluminum foil that you wrinkled up and then unwrinkled. It even folds into three sections making it easy to store in the back of my van.
Another way is to use flash. Monte Zucker teaches a method on his site www.montezucker.com. When using flash outdoors you must maintain the same shutter speed setting with the flash as the ambient reading was in order for the background to be the same as seen by the naked eye. This setting cannot be more than what your camera's shutter synchs at. |
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Benji's Book Posing and Lighting My full color 8.5 x 11 inch glossy 44 page book on how to pose and light the high school senior girl is in my hands are ready to be shipped. It has 44 different poses in it, including head and shoulders, waist up, 3/4 and full length poses. Twenty six poses are shown without a prop, most of the rest of the poses are with chairs that can be bought locally in a second hand furniture store (or new!) I also show a steel "school" chair that I have modified, and I've included instructions how to do it. Four pages of lighting diagrams and five wide angle shots showing the entire scene, then the actual close up shot of that same image so you can see just what the heck the rest of her body is doing to get that great close up shot! LOTS of posing and lighting tips in easy to understand language. Poses for the larger gal as well as the size 6 senior are shown. This is a "lay flat" book that you can show to your client and let her choose what she likes thereby eliminating poses that will not sell. Benji's Video Photographing The High School Senior in the New Millennium Over 45 minutes long and jam packed with lots of good instruction on posing and lighting for the high school senior girl. How to get beautiful indoor lighting for head and shoulders portraits, 3/4 length and full length poses. All of this and lots more are covered, most showing exactly what I do to get the shot. I show in several of the images what problems will crop up when YOU attempt this pose and what you need to do to correct it. The exact placement of the lights to get these shots is also covered in detail. Outdoor poses are covered also. Perfect exposure quickly and easily whether you are shooting digital or film. This is the instructional video for you. You have already experienced my easy to understand style of teaching in my tutorials found here and several of them are included in this video also.How to order:
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