Comments on: Portrait Lighting Techniques — The Fundamentals Of Studio Portraiture

By: Amrish

Amrish — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:08:22 +0000

sir,i want to learn photography will u suggest any good college fro me in which artstic work is taught….

By: Shivanand Sharma

Shivanand Sharma — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:32:15 +0000

Thanks Eyal. Yes we consciously didn’t use any euipment names. Just wanted to place the fundamental lighting right. But maybe in another post…

By: Eyal Gurevitch

Eyal Gurevitch — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:56:48 +0000

Very well written, thanks.
You didn’t mention anything about using umbrellas or soft boxes.
Do you use them? And what about off camera flashes?

By: Shivanand Sharma

Shivanand Sharma — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:05:57 +0000

Thanks for the compliments Konstantin. You can use a soft filter and a narrow DOF (wide aperture). The image has a medium-low contrast, white-balance is slightly warmer and there’s a little motion blur too. The softness is also part due to the fact that the focus is on the feather.

With all this there may be some amount of post-processing involved too.

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:56:32 +0000

Thanks for the article. apnphotographyschool is my favorite website on photography techniques! I’m a newbie though)

A question. How to achieve the haze effect like in the “The best way to make it through” picture here?

Thanks