07.26
It’s time to catch up, so lets step back a bit. At the beginning of… May? – Holy smokes, I kicked off the month with a portrait session for a family not far away. Set up indoors, on location studio style, no assistants – just simple relaxed and fun.
For background light, there’s two SB900’s each with a reflective umbrella fired at the wall giving roughly 1.5 stops over main. Main light is simply a 60″ shoot through.
Here we killed the lights and used just sunlight backlit through window keyed with a partial gold reflector to camera right.
Went lengthwise in the building to encourage light falloff and gain a background with no distractions. Cross-lit with bare flash about 45° behind subject to camera right for a slight backlight / kicker and small 28″ softbox camera left.
Lighting is still basically the same here, we just shuffled positions and concentrated the key light on Owen for a little separation .
Move in the main a little bit closer and you get a little more separation…
Back to natural light, and not much of it…
