Hi, recently I have entered into a venture that I am not sure about. I have started to freelance with a friend of the family taking portraits for people in there homes. I take the photographs and she prints them onto canvases. She does a great job and the printing is fantastic but a am in serious doubts of my work.
I graduated from Uni with a 2:1 hons degree in photography. But the work I did for Uni was more documentary based and I really enjoyed the critical side to it. I never really went in the studio and now I am struggling. I like the pictures I take, which are mainly kiddie portraits but I can not get the lighting right. The sitters are always lit o.k but the back ground looks grey and horrible when it is supposed to be white. I am using two soft boxes one mainly on the person and the other trying to light the person and the back ground which doesn't really work. Do I need another light? Or is it some thing else? Please help? I feel like I should know this and a bit ashamed that I don't
Loaf
I graduated from Uni with a 2:1 hons degree in photography. But the work I did for Uni was more documentary based and I really enjoyed the critical side to it. I never really went in the studio and now I am struggling. I like the pictures I take, which are mainly kiddie portraits but I can not get the lighting right. The sitters are always lit o.k but the back ground looks grey and horrible when it is supposed to be white. I am using two soft boxes one mainly on the person and the other trying to light the person and the back ground which doesn't really work. Do I need another light? Or is it some thing else? Please help? I feel like I should know this and a bit ashamed that I don't
Loaf