My aunt is pregnant and I told her that if you go over speed bumps while driving it makes the baby come faster.. is this true?
A professional PORTRAIT is taken by a professional. Yours would be amatuer. Get some training, take some classes, work with a professional. Then ask this question.
(you will have to search it) but some floodlights aimed backwards onto curved white cardboard works the same as those white umbrellas. get a light meter and find net tips and you should be right
There are many ways to set up proper lighting at home. One would be using diffusers on common lamps to spread the light uniformly. Using halogen spotlights for directional lighting is another good tip. Reflective materials on surfaces you want the light to bounce off is a must. However there's a limit to things you can set up at home. Coordinated flash bursts will require an ensemble of flashes linked to your camera, for example. The limit is your imagination and as for materials, I would ask a friend that knows about interior decorations or architecture.
Go to a city council meeting and get on the agenda.
I used halogen construction lights with photo umbrellas. Remember studio light is balanced and soft. what you do to light a subject is either DIFFUSE -soften light by shining through fabric barrier, forget it if you don't have a pro rig, can be a fire hazard (been there). BOUNCE-reflect light onto your subject, works with any reflective materialthat is what the umbrellas are for. You point the light at the correct angle into the umbrella and it bounces back onto your subject. DO NOT place the umbrella directly on the light (fire Hazard, been there too). It needs to be at least the length of the umbrella depending how hot your lights are. FILL- best used for detail light on subject, ex faceuse a piece of white foam core to bounce ambient/available light to bounce light up Finally look at photos see what the light is doing, where is it coming fromlook at Mapplethorpe ( not everybody's fave) but a master of lighting and Edward Weston, Helmut Newton OR Take a class..
