Portraiture with Window Light: In-Class Exercise

Students from our class offered to be the subject in last week's shooting demo that I did. We look at the differences in quality of light a simple window can offer. Window light looks different when coming from the side, behind or directly at your subject's face. Use of a fill card (reflector or white poster board) can alter the light dramatically and fill in shadows to reveal more detail.

*Note that the window we used did not have direct sun coming through it- the light was diffused so the shadows were softer.