Intro To Light

Today I learned from the wonderful Johnny Long about light. To move into portraits, we learned about basic lightning and posing.  We learned about how to reduce "sharp" light by moving the light closer to the subject and how you can reduce shadows by moving your subject away from the background. But above all, we learned to experiment with the light and to just shoot a lot of pictures.

Technical Stuff:

• Think about where your subject is placed and how they will be perceived.
• Should they be sitting down?
• Look at the angles and see how different angles look together.
• "Feathering" bouncing the light off of something instead of shining it directly on the subject.
• Bulb setting allows you to hold the shutter open for as long as you want *but you have to shut it again.*