Lumina

http://www.keatleyphoto.com/blog/archives/1915

*Direct sunlight was coming through a large window on the left side of the frame. You can see the bright spot on the floor pointing toward the piano. There were soft rolling shadows all over the wall and furniture from the sunlight bouncing off the white carpet and other light surfaces. It was beautiful light, but the range between the light on the floor and the shadows was too wide to capture with detail.

*I took several frames with just natural light, to get a rough idea of what the shot could feel like

*I did was get an exposure that had some detail in the sun spot on the floor. I wanted it to be bright, but not blown out.

*I shot at ISO 100, and the exposure was 1/125 at f/9.0

*I like to add and work with one light at a time when I am building my lighting setups. I start with the brightest light source. The sun in this case, and work my way down to the fill lights.

* I set up a large softbox on camera left, in front of the window

*I did rearrange quite a bit, I didn’t want to make a complete mess of their home

* The reason for feathering the softbox from the wall was because I wanted to create a darker shadow in the upper left corner of the frame.

*It is kind of important to actually light the subjects with the key as well.

*Clamps and tape are a must if you ask me.

*The goal for the fill light was to control the shadows. I don’t want this light to be even with the sun, or the key (softbox). What I want out of the fill is to bring up the dark shadows to a level that has detail, but still looks and feels like a shadow.

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