Using a Motivated Key Light - Photography Lesson

A few months ago, I did a fantasy portrait with a woman holding an umbrella in the wind. While I was on this set, I took some time to shoot another image using the same set elements. We had the branch, grass and the backdrop and I wanted to add a woman with a lantern. Julene says I shoot with lanterns too much but I love the look, and holding a lantern is a great motivated key source; you see the light source in the shot and it creates a reason for all the light that will happen in the image. Street lights,
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