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The Natural Light Portrait Book
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The Natural Light Portrait Book

by Scott Kelby
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
4h 42m
English
Rocky Nook
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NOTES: The key here is to position your subject so they’re in smooth, even light, not dappled light (see page 64). I kept the lens up to my eye and directed my subject to move to the left, right, whatever, until she didn’t have any annoying dapples of light sneaking through the tree. Once I had that soft, even light, I took the shot.

POST-PROCESSING: There were two main things I had to deal with: (1) All the green foliage behind her and above her gave her skin tone a bit of a greenish/yellowish tint. So, in Lightroom, I took the Adjustment Brush, lowered the Saturation amount to –25, and then I painted over her skin to desaturate it ...

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ISBN: 9781681984261