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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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Watch Out for Changing Window Light

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Anytime you’re dealing with natural light it’s subject to change. As the sun moves across the sky, it’s going to change the angle and intensity of the light, and it seems (at least to me) like this change is more noticeable when you’re shooting with window light. You start out the shoot with one setting, and 30 or 45 minutes later, that setting isn’t right any longer, so you need to keep an eye on your shutter speed throughout the shoot. You don’t want to start out at 1/125 or 1/200 of a second and find out later that, when the light changed, it dropped to 1/30 of a second, and you have a bunch of shots that ...

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ISBN: 9781681984261