Run and Gun Lighting Resource: One-Light Solutions for Commercial and Portrait Photographers (David Lopes' Library) by Nick Fancher

Author:Nick Fancher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 2014-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Portrait: Environmental

When you are shooting portraits indoors in an existing environment (although not a studio), you have two options: kill the ambient light or preserve it. Remember that your camera sees ambient light through shutter speed and ISO while it sees strobe through how open or closed your aperture is set. Depending on how bright it is in the room, you may need to use a fairly low shutter speed and/or a higher ISO to pick up that ambient light. Keep in mind that if you use a higher ISO to bring up the ambient light, this will also affect the brightness of the strobe. Your output would need to be fairly low so you don’t need to close down the aperture or lower the ISO, thus eliminating the ambient light you just fought to preserve.

In the image of the nurse practitioner at CVS, I opted to preserve the ambient light. My assignment was to photograph her at work. If I had used a lower ISO, faster shutter speed, or higher flash output, the background would’ve been considerably darker, if not black.

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