Creating portraits on location: Natural or flash?
The photographer’s best tool is light, and there are many choices. Light is used to mold, define, describe and set the mood of a portrait,
Bobbi Lane is an award-winning commercial photographer specializing in creative portraits in studio and on location for editorial, corporate, and advertising accounts. Lane’s multi-faceted approach to photography incorporates over 35 years of technical experience with innovative artistic interpretation.
As a dedicated photo educator, she brings insight and enthusiasm to her students in information packed workshops held worldwide. Bobbi’s excellent rapport and communication with her students inspires and motivates, while her straight-forward teaching style reaches students of many different skill levels. Bobbi is known for her fun-filled workshops, teaching natural and strobe lighting techniques for portraits, and for leading international photo travel workshops.
Photo District News named her one of 13 of the Top Workshop Instructors.
The photographer’s best tool is light, and there are many choices. Light is used to mold, define, describe and set the mood of a portrait,
It’s pretty easy to make your own natural light “studio” for just a little money and a little time for set up. “Portraits Unplugged” is
Dan Bailey and Karen Hutton, Fujifilm X Team Photographers, jumping for joy in Florida Fuji XT 2, 10-24mm f 4 lens, ISO 800, f 4,
Dragging the Shutter, as we learned in Part One, is a tricky technique where you light the subject with your flash, and then use a
Dragging the shutter is a technique that balances the exposure of strobe and ambient light sources in one photo. For example: taking a photo of