{"id":2019,"date":"2011-12-04T22:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:33:09","slug":"potd-infant-in-soft-window-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"POTD: Infant in Soft Window Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2020\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111129_Terran_5D_5725_w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2020\" title=\"111129_Terran_5D_5725_w7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111129_Terran_5D_5725_w7.jpg\" alt=\"Window Light Portrait\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Window Light Portrait<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Photographers take advantage of window light to create portraits, and long before photography, painters were making good use of window light. It can be beautiful light.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For window light portraits, I prefer bright, sunny days and a south facing window but I don&#8217;t always have that choice when working on location. In my studio I use a translucent blind over the window which creates soft, almost non-directional light with minimal shadows without reducing the quantity of the light too much. It works great for people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>For the location photo above, diminishing late afternoon light was coming in a west window. I closed the blinds to soften the light, but the thickness of the blinds significantly reduced the quantity of the light.\u00c2\u00a0 At my preferred aperture of f\/8 and an ISO of 100 (for maximum image quality), the shutter speed was 0.6 second, just a hair over 1\/2 second. The 2 week old infant was sleeping soundly so a slow shutter speed wasn&#8217;t a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 I placed him on his side, facing the blind covered window.<\/p>\n<p>I put the lens and camera on a tripod, turned on mirror lock up (to minimize any vibration from mirror slap during the slow shutter speed), and used the two second self timer. With any brand of camera and a longer focal length lens, it is always advisable to use mirror lock up for shutter speeds from 1\/30 second on down to 1\/4 second and it doesn&#8217;t hurt to use mirror lock up at a shutter speed of 1\/2 and 1 second for a little extra image sharpness insurance. Using a cable release or a self timer will keep you from jiggling the camera at the moment the shutter opens. A 100 mm focal length gave me a pleasing perspective.<\/p>\n<p>More information on portraits, exposure, perspective, and getting maximum image sharpness and quality are in my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp_book\/exp_book.html\"><em>Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Data: Canon 5D. Canon EF 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens at 100 mm. f\/8, 0.6 seconds, ISO 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers take advantage of window light to create portraits, and long before photography, painters were making good use of window light. It can be beautiful light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lighting","category-photographs","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}