KISS portraits!!
by mysv8rulz on Sep.24, 2009, under General, Portrait shoots
No no you wont see any images of people kissing in this post but some examples about how well a simply lit portrait can work. (Keep It Simple Stupid) I think all to often we can take lighting for portraits a little to far, with multiple lights flashing and huge light modifiers everywhere, can make people pull the wool over theyre eyes so to speak so you cant get them honest/fun expressions that really make an A grade photograph.
The images in question below were all lit with a single shoot through umbrella with SB900 at our local show. The umbrella was moved around a it but nothing drastic was done. I found my subjects for the weekend (mainly children) seemed to really open up and got some really fantastic expressions. The amount of images I got from just one set of batteries in the flash was amazing, using a high iso and wide aperture on the camera allowed me to shoot the flash nearly at it’s lowest power which got me over 1400 photos from the one set.
Enjoy
