From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
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The artistic benefits of lighting modifiers
From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
The artistic benefits of lighting modifiers
- We can modify a harsh light and make it soft and pleasing. We can shape the light and guide it across our subject for an elegant look. We can modify the light to create shadows to produce a dramatic image. We can even mix light and add different modifiers to create killer images. Embrace lighting modifiers. They are the creative tools that'll help us photographers tell an artistic story. Like most of you, I bought my first strobe and I was so excited to get it thinking that the moment I added that light to the scene it was going to become magical. Well, it wasn't. The first time I went out and did a shoot I was so discouraged I put that away and decided to only work with natural light. Then it dawned on me. If I use the sun as a strobe, and use that concept and understand what the sun was doing, and I had a great grasp of that, using studio strobes were going to be pretty easy. So, I took time, went into the studio and visualized the sun. And I used that strobe, like the sun, and I…
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