I don’t have many photographs of my mother. Maybe that’s weird for a photographer, but it’s true. Maybe I’m just a sentimental old fool, but this is fast becoming one of my favorite photographs. It’s not flashy, or “cool” or glamourous, but I really feel like I’ve captured the essence of my mother in this shot.
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I’ve been away a while and I’ve been trying to learn some new things, soaking up a lot of information via podcasts and website, but not doing a lot of shooting; something that is about to change.
One of the tricks I’ve been trying to learn is using feathering with my lighting. Feathering is where, instead of setting up your light so that it points directly at your subject, you instead angle the light away from your subject so that only the edge of the beam hits your subject. My first attempt at this with any sort of success was this self-portrait:
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