LIGHTING CONTROL 4 n l There are several techniques for portrait lighting. Most straightforwardly and flatteringly, use a medium light source for portraits and check the distribution of light across the face. If you place the light source around 2­3 m away from the subject the lighting will be reasonably even across the subject. You may need additional lighting for fill-in, to control the background lighting, or introduce a `backlit' appearance. Expose for the face. n l Use lighting techniques to balance foreground and background lighting, or relatively darken the background by using flash lighting of the foreground to give a dramatic effect. n l For interior location lighting you can use monolights as the principal light source, with umbrellas or softboxes (or you can bounce the light). Match the exposure to room lights to retain the atmosphere of the room. n l You can achieve excellent lighting using flashguns if you work out how to control the flashlight in relation to the ambient light. You can balance the lighting of the subject and the background indoors or outdoors using fill-in flash, etc.