Portrait Demo

For this week's assignment, we learned how to take two different styles of portrait pictures. The first (right) was with window lighting. To do this, you simply need three people: a model, a photographer, and someone to hold a big poster board. The model stands 90 degrees away from the window, facing the photographer, and the third person holds the board at about a 45 degree angle from the model. The end result gives you really nice, soft light with a slight shadow on the model's face. The picture on the left was taken with studio lighting. There were several different lights set up similar to the window lighting, with a simple white backdrop as well. My picture ended up looking really shiny, but I guess altogether the results were pretty good.