Tonight I have learnt the secrets behind taking good portrait pictures. Before event starting we learnt that the recipe for the last 300+ years has been referred to as the "Rembrandt triangle". The little tringle of light that you get the shade side of your face when it is illuminated from the side.
Said and done we strated by putting up a light on the left hand side of the model, in the western world where we read from left to right, you iluminate the left side (right when seen from the model) and in countries where you read from right to left you tend to illuminate models from the right hand side. Peculiar detail.
In front of the flash you added a "Soft Box" to spread the light gently. The flsah was less than 1m from the model in order to make the light as soft as possible. On the other side of the model we used a reflector (White for soft reflection or silver for strong relektion) to get the shade side illuminated.
We learnt that a black background was easiest to get black when the wall was a bit away. However when switching to white we have to get close to avoid that the white should turn grey by being to far away from the flash.
Final step, illumibation of the hair from behind with a honeycomb filter. No I am curious to try my new skills and turn great analog friends into digital protraits, with a Rembrant triangle in the right location. But leave the bling-bling behind, it reflects the light in non-desired directions and was beyond the scope of our class today.
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