Best Light

 It's the time of year when many of you are out looking to take pictures of your loved ones and wanting a more professional look to your offerings. One of the simplest ways to accomplish this is to find the best light to work with. I start most of my shoots of by using simple window light to get great looking headshots of my clients. Here we have Georgia sat on the floor so that she's looking slightly up which lifts any issues around the chin. My back is to a window through which is coming beautiful soft light. No harsh sunshine just soft window light. You can see a reflection of this light in her eyes giving what is known as a catchlight and brings life to the eye sockets.

Get the camera to measure the light from the centre of the face and if you can adjust the depth of field of your camera then go for a shallow depth of field so the eyes are sharp and everything else fades out behind. This is achieved by adjusting the aperture and the smaller the number, the shallower the depth of field. f2.8 is shallower than f11.