Lighting Challenges in Portrait Photography

This image shows my favorite light situation: Natural sunlight from behind plus a flash bouncing off an umbrella to lighten the face beautifully.

Check out the lighting setup in all sorts of different lighting situations for the series of portraits of NZ authors last year, who were representing New Zealand being the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 on lightingdiagram.com/user/majamoritz

This is the setup for the lighting situation for the image above:

Learn more about lighting diagrams here lightingdiagram.com and create your own diagrams. It's free for private users!

View my portrait photography, each with it's own lighting chart
lightingdiagram.com/user/majamoritz

View my portrait portfolio
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