You’ve got the perfect camera to suit your shooting style, and chosen the lens that enables you to take the picture that’s in your head. However, there’s a difference between just taking a picture and truly making a picture.
With a camera and lens, a picture taker has everything they need. A picture maker, though, will make use of tools such as lights, modifiers, reflectors and gels. Light is the raw material of photography, so the ability to control it is crucial to create great pictures – and nowhere is this more true than with portraiture.
It doesn’t matter what light you use – a speed light, continuous, studio, angle-poise; adding supplemental lighting will let you create shape, texture and form. This is achieved using modifiers like umbrellas, softboxes, snoots…
