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Here is a nice little YouTube video that I made showing a nice way to use Lightroom’s Brush tool to dodge some shadows in your high key portrait. This is great if you are using a wrinkled white backdrop or sheet and don’t have the light power to completely blow out your background. Take a look:

Enjoy!

Here is one on shutter drag for you to check out. For those who don’t know, shutter drag is a term used when shooting with your flash. Dragging the shutter means that you are setting a very low shutter speed on your camera (so shooting in Manual mode is a perk here) to let more ambient light in and create movement. The flash (should be set to rear curtain sync) then fires at the end of the exposure to freeze your subject. The result is an image that tells a story of movement and motion. It also helps to bring out the ambient light in the background for a more appealing photograph.

Here is an example of dragging the shutter and zooming in with my lens:

Thanks!

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