Quick photo tip: The model stands in the light
29.10.2018
Sometimes people simply turn dark in photos. A simple trick can help.
You know the situation: You take the perfect snapshot in the sunshine and the person in front of the camera looks like a mixture of an image and a silhouette. But you want to take a photo of your model in the sunshine.
This is a question of exposure and for professionals, the following three elements are important in a photo:
- The light
- The light
- The light
But one trick is enough for beginners.
The thing with the sun
Most of the time, your light is the sun, because you rarely have spotlights or spotlights available. So you have to rely on the sun.
For portraits of people, you are usually looking for soft light, i.e. light that is distributed more or less evenly everywhere.
- The cloudier the weather, the softer the light
- The sunnier, the harder the light
It's easy to take a snapshot in cloudy weather because the sillhouette effect doesn't even materialise. In the sun, however, you need a trick: you can see your shadow in front of you.
In practice: looking into the light
If you take a photo in which you as the photographer have the light in your face, it looks like this
In theory, it looks like this
But if you have the light behind you and your model is looking into the light, the following happens
In theory, it looks like this
Admittedly, we took this photo in bad weather. But even then, it can happen that the face is too dark against the light.
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