Sunday, November 23, 2008

Blood from a Stone

Atlanta Photographer Matthew Lane-
In the continuing search to create great natural light headshots, I worked hard this weekend to wrangle the bit of light coming into the dining room at my home into something to work with. The sun light shines hard on the floor so the goal was to get that light to shine brightly on the ceiling to create that big diffused light coming from everywhere. To accomplish this, I used two gold reflectors, one held with a light stand and the other on the floor. This lit the ceiling brightly to create two large light sources from above and below. For the shot, I placed Abbie just under that bright ceiling looking up. I did have to position her to keep the bright gold reflectors from creating too much low light which is quite unflattering to anybody.

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