From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography
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The magic of doorway light
From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography
The magic of doorway light
- Next, I want to talk about the magic of working with doorway or garage light. Now, why am I calling it garage light? Well, often this type of light comes from scenarios like this. With this example, the guy here, my subject Jeff, is standing literally in front of his garage. And what this type of light is... Is often what you'll do is, you'll have someone standing in a space where there is walls surrounding them above and on the sides and back, and they're facing that open light. Now, that type of light can afford you to create really strong, really powerful and wonderful portraits. Let me go through a few examples here so you can see what I mean. Here I have a subject sitting in a doorway, and in order to create the look that I have in the black and white version of the photograph, I just had her step back into the darkness just a little bit. Now, the camera doesn't necessarily pick up the darkness behind her. It's almost like she's illuminated from that opening in front of her…
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