Everything we’ve learned up to this point has prepared us for the following lessons. Here, we put our knowledge to practical use.
We begin with our Key Light, of course. And I want to stress that it’s very important to learn to work with a single light first. Understand how different lighting positions, distances from light to subject and light to background affect the look of your portraits, and how different modifiers affect coverage and contrast.
We’ll start here, with a thorough walk-through and demonstration of how to setup a key light.