From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light

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- Now as long as you're set up for this moody portrait, ya out of back up and make some more full length pictures or three-quarters length. One of the benefits of using this really dramatic light setup when you're shooting a larger portrait of a person is that you don't have to reveal the entire body. One small difference from doing the head-shots with the moody and dramatic light is that you might want to lower the position of your light so it's shining more at shoulder level instead of just at eye level. This way, you're illuminating lower on the body also, especially if you use a large diffuser or modifier like here, we're using our five in one reflector as our modifier. We can hold this up next to our subject and shine a speed light right through it and get a really soft, dramatic light that illuminates her whole body. These moody, dramatic, deep shadow portraits are some of my favorites. I do them at every shoot and it always astounds my client that making just small changes to…

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