Catchlights. I wrote a few posts back that capturing catchlights was one of my next goals for portraits. You know, the light reflections in your subject's eyes that bring life to their eyes, and light up the whole photograph. I never used to consciously notice them. But there are several somethings that set a great portrait apart from an ok portrait. Catchlights is one of those things. Now that I know about them, I notice the reflections in people's eyes all the time. When photographing in natural light, it is pretty easy to capture catchlights. Just look for them. You'll see it.
Now my next challenge is to create artificial (?) catchlights with strobes. How on earth do you do that?? I can capture the round dot. Not what I'm going for.
2 comments:
You are really good at explaning this stuff! This is a delightful picture too:-) I didnt even know what a catchlight was, so Im no help there, lol
Wow what a gorgeous picture. I must admit I didnt know what it was called but you did a lovely job of catching it in this lovely little bundle!
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