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Shooting with Available Light – Lifestyle Portraiture

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Shooting with Available Light – Lifestyle Portraiture - 02-16-2011, 02:31 PM


Wonderful article! It's bound to stir up difference of opinions.

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02-16-2011, 02:59 PM


interesting read... I've been practicing this technique for the past few months with varied success and failures. ha ha

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02-19-2011, 10:42 PM


Great find Sonny, really enjoyed reading the article. I agree entirely with letting the highlights go:

"Perfectly lit images (with detail in the whites and shadows) have their place, but I find it can be restrictive and really unnecessary when photographing people..."

It took a long time to train myself out of the mentality that every part of every exposure must be perfect. I've yet to work with a portraiture client who rejected a great photo because a cloud was overexposed.

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02-19-2011, 11:16 PM


The thing is, it bothers ME when something is overexposed in one of my shots if I didn't intend it (read: mistake). Generally speaking, clients typically aren't as discerning as the respective photographer is or should be.

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