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Tricky Tuesday: Creating a Low Key Headshot
Creating a low-key headshot: Low-key lighting is a style of portrait lighting for creating a chiaroscuro effect. Chiaroscuro is Italian for light-dark. The use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.
Exploring Infrared Portraiture Possibilities
When I first became involved in digital infrared photography, making portraits was not a recommended use of this technology. Yet, one of the earliest non-landscape applications of IR photography was in wedding photography and you can see some beautiful examples of this from creative photographers in my book, The Complete Guide to Infrared Photography.
Correcting Exposure for Window Light Portraits
When I was teaching a basic photography course at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, I often would tell my students that the perfect photographic exposure was the one that they liked.
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At a time when everybody who writes a blog is an expert, I’ve have been writing about photography, cameras and studio lighting since 1981 and digital photography since 1989. I’m passionate about photography and if you would like to get some additional photo tips from all that experience…