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Westcott Top Pro photographer Matt Hernandez takes us behind the scenes of an on-location senior portrait photo shoot in this 2-part video tutorial series for photographers.
In this video, Matt discusses soft lighting while shooting outdoors on a sunny day. Soft lighting is an extremely flattering style to use when photographing women and girls. However, soft lighting is nearly impossible to achieve when shooting outdoors with only ambient lighting.
To create soft lighting on this sunny farm, Matt uses a strobe and the large 49″ Rapid Box XXL softbox with both diffusion panels. This softens and diffuses the output of the strobe, creating a very flattering, soft light source.
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23 responses to “Lighting and Posing Techniques for On-Location Senior Portraits (Part 1)”
I want to visit Kentucky. i heard that it's the home of fast women and beautiful horses, and I'd really like to see those horses! 🙂
Paul floyd photos
Love that accent 😘
Oh my, those are some bad photos. Please if anyone is watching this, you don't need extra lights, and also, please don't oversaturate your photos!
Who ruined the pics in post ?
It looks hot and humid there…..
The pics taken on ambient light look better and have more dimension than the ones taken with flash.
Ambient light pics are way better than your strobe pics, I guess it could be because you did not clip the shutter enough fearing your strobe will band if you go above 250 sync speed.
I know this is an older video, but thanks, I learned from it!
Love your work, Matt. This was a 5 minute tutorial, but you spent 4 minutes talking. More shooting next time! Thx.
Cool tutorial although hillary looks angry 😉
If it was me I wouldn't have used a strobe here, but rather a diffusion panel to camera right. If you've got great directional late-afternoon sunlight, use it.
fluorescent green… yikes
The model looks nice, gentle but the photos are horrible.
What a nasty over saturated skin and dress tone.
Also the introduccion is so large to much bla bla bla……
Sorry it´s not my type
Holy Retina those are over-saturated. I actually liked the ambient light better than those with fill.
Don't like, very unnatural over saturated colours, blown out, bad composition
Over saturated color in all the photos.
I'm guessing the model is friend, might just be me but I don't think it's professional for him to go up to her and say "all this nasty light on her face" etc, I think it would make the model feel a certain way, harsh light would have been better than nasty light.
holy over saturated
I thought the ambient light photos actually looked better in this one. The highlights look a tad over blown in the background also. Always a good video though!
The hot spots in the backgrounds are so distracting.
Great Video.
For Ambient Exposure: f2.8 1/250 sec @ ISO-100, Do you have ND filter on?
Cool!