From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Natural Light Portraiture

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Outdoor shoot critique

Outdoor shoot critique

So you find natural light just about anywhere and here we have a good example I would like you to join me on. It's simply the middle of the day and we have a diffuser and we have Natalie outside in the midday light, which you'd think, "How can you get a picture like that?" Well, you can. It's very simple how we got wonderful pictures. First, we went up and we put a diffuser up above her, so the light isn't-- the midday light isn't coming right down on her. So we have this diffusion device up there. What I am doing here is I am using a longer lens to get the soft background and we have a reflector at minimal. But again it's all part of your artists and photographers' creativity, where images come from. So we brought a chair up, because you can't have somebody stand in the middle of nowhere and not have some comfortable spot. So we started by bringing the chair up, I had her sit on it, and then I had her stand up and lean on it to get a variation. Anyway, the light, again, it is so…

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