Portrait

     This week we learned about light. Our main focus was three point lighting. There is a main light that is off the the side of the person. The reflector is on the opposite side of the main light or key light. This reflector on the opposite side lights up the side of the face of the subject away from the main light. Lastly, the hair is light is behind the person. It creates a small halo effect on the person and makes the person stand out from the background. When using the sun light coming in from the window as main light, the only two lights you use are the main light (from the sunlight) and a reflecting surface for the secondary light. Also, we learned about making a good portrait. Some tips we used were making your subject comfortable, using a large aperture, and using a relatively fast shutter speed like 1/60 of a second. We used these lighting skills to take portraits of people in our class. I think that these skills really helped define the subject's face light up and it was fun to take portraits. I don't like taking pictures of people, though, so I won't use these skills specifically for portraits most likely but I could use it for other lighting in pictures.