This Q&A session is about an hour long, so it’s one of those “grab a beverage and settle in for a bit” sort of videos.
Darlene and Bruce answer a bunch of lighting and photography related questions. They cover things such as:
- What if you have to shoot outdoors and there is no available shade?
- Choosing locations and time of day?
- What if you can’t bounce your flash or the walls are colored?
- How to find focus in a really dark room
- What’s our opinion of diffusion for on-camera flash?
- What lens should I buy next?
- Are there other types of photography that the lessons in this course would be appropriate for?
- What kind of reflector should I use? Gold, silver or white?
- Does reflector size matter?
- How to deal with a subject that has glasses?
- And what about glasses that darken in sunlight?
- How much should I charge if I’m just starting out doing portrait photography as a part-time business?
- What are our thoughts around “head swapping” in group portraits?
- What is your post-processing workflow? What do you do after the shoot?
- How can I get experience as a portrait photographer or assistant?
- What is “open shade” and how do you find it?
- How to pose a group for a portrait
- Where to focus on a group portrait?
- Do you always need a reflector and flash when doing outdoor portraits?
Extend your learning
- Darlene mentioned writing an article about what lens to buy next.
- Darlene uses Backblaze backup service to backup all her images offsite for only $5 a month.
- The photography tours Darlene mentions for vacations as total photography immersion.
