Working with one light and some kind of diffusion, take as many photos as you need to get one good example of:
Front light
Rembrandt light – loop or closed loop
Short light
Broad light
Split light
Front Light
Rembrandt Light (loop)
Short Light
Broad Light
Split Light
A few considerations:
Put a chair for your model as far from furniture and other obstacles as you can. Sit at the same level as your subject. Or both stand. But be at the same level.
Pay attention to anything distracting behind the subject. move it if you can or try facing in another direction.
You will need to be able to move the light around your subject.
Turn off any other lights besides the light you are using for the portraits.
Diffuse the light.
Settings: Shutter Speed – Keep the shutter speed fast enough to freeze both your motion and your subject’s motion. For a camera this may be 1/60. For a cameraphone it may be slower possibly 1/15. I personally would never shoot with shutter speeds that long. I would keep to 1/125 and 1/30.
Aperture – Use your widest aperture.
ISO-You may have to use a high ISO. Keep it as low as you can.
Put your five final photos in a post on OpenLab with a short description of your process, which was the easiest? which the hardest? Which one makes your subject look the best?
Sometimes, we can’t completely eliminate direct reflection when shooting glass. Instead, we need to diffuse it.
For example, if you want to photograph a product in a glass or hard plastic bottle and you need to see the label or the bottle is not transparent. Then you use diffusion to soften the direct reflection.
Backlight doea not work in every case!
With one side light.
With a side light, diffustion and fill.
With a side light, diffusion,fill and a second light on the background.
Create a food product shot with a product in glass or hard plastic packaging, controlling direct reflection. Be clear what do you want to say about the product. It needs to be the hero of the shot. Use an eye-level of low angle shot.
If you don’t have the materials to make a sweep, then use a shorter product such as a jam jar or even a tube of something with a three-quarter or overhead angle. Side light or set the light between a side light and a front light and use diffusion and reflection.
Build up the shot with props to bring out your message and be visually appealing.
Bring into lightroom and adjust.
Post your final image with a description of your process.
To avoid direct reflection, light glass from behind.
The glass on the left was shot with the ambient light. The glass on the left was shot with diffused backlight.
Photograph a glass of water with ambient light.
Photograph a glass of water using backlight. Trun off all other lights so that there is no direct reflection.
Place one glass on top of an identical upside down glass in front of a white wall or other white background that fills the frame behind the glass.
Think abut the ellipses in the glass as you choose the angle of view. A low angle will make the glass appear larger and more “heroic.”
Put your two photographs in a gallery block in a post on OpeLab with a description of how you were able to photograph glass and control direct reflection.
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