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Bad light to good light

Bad light to good light

From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography

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Bad light to good light

- Ashley, hello. It's so good to see you. - Hey Chris, how are you? You as well. - [Chris] Thank you so much for coming. - Thanks for having me. Yes. - Yes. So Ashley is a good friend and she's going to help us talk about this topic of going from bad to good. What I mean by that is going from photographs that aren't really working to something that hopefully works a little bit better. So our location is this non-descript business park. It's not very interesting and Ashley has this beautiful natural look. So I want to try to capture a bit of that. And so let's first start off just by working with what we have. So we're going to walk over here and you can stand sort of right in the middle of this parking lot area. And I'm going to start off again sort of demonstrating perhaps what not to do. So I'm going to f/7 and shoot an ISO 125. I have Ashley standing here. I'll go ahead and capture an image of her. I haven't directed her at all. So she's standing there, sort of just normal. Not…

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