The Epic Portrait

Making a Portrait into Something Epic

You might be asking yourself, “What is an Epic Portrait?”. An Epic Portrait is when you use a flash to help your foreground and your background have the same level of exposure. Below are some examples of this. Please excuse her posing in the first two images. She was talking while I was taking these sample images, haha! In the first portrait, we can see the woman perfectly. The lighting exposure looks great on her but her background is over exposed. Look at the next portrait. The background is well exposed and looks lovely. Unfortunately, we cannot see her very well because she is underexposed. How do we fix this? Keep your camera on the settings where the woman is underexposed, set up a speed light to face her, and snap the portrait. The third portrait shows the result. Suddenly, we can see that the entire image is well exposed and we have created an Epic Portrait! It’s that easy!