If you give a photographer a camera, she will want to take your picture…[SinglePic not found]
she will ask you to sit a few feet from the window and turn towards her so one side of your face basks in the stream of light.
She will notice that there is too much contrast, that one side of your face is too in shadow and will ask for a white piece of foam core to bounce the light back on your face.
If you give her the foamcore, she will want to get the exposure just right and ask for a hand held light meter and a computer to check the exposure with a facemask histogram.
If you give her a held held light meter and a computer, she will notice the background is cluttered with pictures hanging on the wall,
so she will ask for a fast lens to shoot at 2.8 to soften the background and separate you from it.
If you give her a fast lens she will ask you to go play outside so she can test it’s quick focusing
If you go outside, she will ask you to play in the shade.
If you let her photograph for a long time, she will get tired of chasing the shade and she will ask for a flash and a flash modifier so she can balance the light on you and the background as well as clean up the nasty shadows on your face. When you get her the flash that her camera company makes, she will ask you to sit in the middle of a meadow in the beautiful sunshine.
If you sit in the meadow and she will photograph you with her flash off her camera in flash modifier and white foam core, she will get frustrated by the shadows still under your eyes and the blown out sky. She will ask you to get a Quantum flash or maybe the baby ranger power pack from Elinchrome so she can use her big lights and softbox to overpower the sun, balance out the light between you and the background and clean up those shadows.
If you get her a Quantum flash or a baby ranger, she will be in heaven…but if you don’t have the extra grand or two, she will just ask you to go back to the shade, or put on your sun glasses or give you an umbrella or ask you to lay on a white sheet and ask to be in front of a darker background.
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