In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful portrait and discusses the following:
- 110mm as a classic portrait focal length
- the visual weight and power of catch lights
- working with repetition and movement along the top left to bottom right major diagonal as tools to unify the image in a pleasing way
- window light and dimensional lighting
- strategies for dealing with a portrait subject in a portrait pairing that may not be comfortable with the camera
- using luminosity and contrast changes In Adobe Photoshop CS4 to add more left to right movement in the image and to create dimensional lighting effects
