Last one for my Mentoring Group - B&W with artificial light. I went back to the session I did with Sophie and picked one that I liked. Guess what she thinks her face looks fat and she doesn't like her teeth!! I have struggled with using the flash during this theme - I definitely need to go on a course!! I just couldn't get rid of the shadow - I forgot I had a reflector i could have used and another off camera flash to light the background. Lots of lessons learned!!
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For your comments if you have time. I tried a few different shots this evening and none worked so I went back to the many shots of Sophie I took last week. As I said above lots learned but so much more to learn!!
Ironically creative live has a free on line workshop going on and I watched a fabulous workshop on indoors natural light portraiture. You would have loved it. This is beautiful and I wonder if a diffuser would have avoided would have avoid d the hot spot
She is a lovely young lady! I agree with @jgpittenger about a diffuser (which I don't own). I did read that you can use bubble wrap, in a cone, over your flash, to act as a DYI diffuser. I might try it, as that appeals to my "low tech" side. B& w with artificial light seems to be a very technologically demanding subject, so this is a nice result.
There's still a bit of a sheen but you've captured personality and she looks great, so it seems this is working. I'm not sure I like the shadow that is bigger than she is.
@taffy yes it was the shadow I was having trouble with! Wherever I held the flash I managed to get a shadow! I couldn't think what to do to avoid getting it?
@pamknowler I don't know much about portrait work, but I think it requires two light sources to cancel each other out so that there isn't a shadow. You could, maybe, have her next to a window with natural light coming in on one side, and then have the light on the other side, and even then use the on-camera flash as a third source. But again, this is all guessing as I have no real experience with portrait work!
Oh dear my granddaughter pictured a few days ago thinks her face looks fat too! Sophie is beautiful....they are so hard on themselves. I think you did a great job here Pam.
September 23rd, 2015
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For your comments if you have time. I tried a few different shots this evening and none worked so I went back to the many shots of Sophie I took last week. As I said above lots learned but so much more to learn!!