Ahhhh… tomorrow night can’t come soon enough! Tomorrow’s class is THE class I’ve been waiting all semester for. Shooting with OCF [off-camera-flash] and strobes outdoors to ‘key shift’ the ambient light from the outdoor environment and light my subject with strobes. Yummy yummy photographic goodness. My instructor says once we master this, our photography will never be the same.
Personally, I CAN NOT WAIT!! I love the look of OCF and the impact it makes to a photograph. It can be super dramatic or very natural. It’s all in how the lighting is used and placed on location. Annie Liebovitz has made this technique famous… It’s been used for years by other photographers, but she has really made it a hallmark of her photographic style.
Examples of Key Shifting are all by Annie Liebovitz:
I’m certainly no where near, even in my most deluded dreams, an Annie Liebovitz. Not now and probably not in 20 years… Her creative vision and pushing of the creative envelope is unparalleled. I simply hope to grasp the concept of key shifting to improve my photographic skills and bring some new, creative options to the table.
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