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Week 6 Assignment: Head Shot Portrait
The Head shot portrait is your standard portrait used for school, office, or to take to auditions for acting gigs to become a star. In the case of Debbie above, this portrait is for her inductee to the USSSA Washington Softball Hall of Fame.
This portrait was made with an off camera flash and a simple background. I set up the flash, off camera tethered by cable, and shot it through a white photo umbrella. This diffuses the light from the flash, in essence, softening the light so you do not create hard shadows on the background behind the subject. What this also does is create a good "catchlight" in the eyes of the subject, giving them life. The catchlight is actually a new thing I learned or became aware of and you definitely notice a difference when you have one.
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Week 7 Assignment: Architecture
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