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Homemade softbox.<br />
Haven’t got white foam board?<br />
Tape white copy paper to some<br />
cardboard! Use a white wall! D<strong>on</strong>’t<br />
have a wireless flash trigger? Use<br />
a small plain piece of cardboard<br />
in fr<strong>on</strong>t of <strong>the</strong> built-in flash, angled<br />
so that n<strong>on</strong>e of its light strikes<br />
<strong>the</strong> subject but <strong>the</strong> off-camera<br />
flash is triggered by <strong>the</strong> built-in<br />
flash (which has a slave and will<br />
trigger when it sees ano<strong>the</strong>r flash<br />
go off). Although all <strong>the</strong> tools we<br />
are menti<strong>on</strong>ing are great to have<br />
(and at some point you’ll get at<br />
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least some), quite often <strong>the</strong>re are<br />
workarounds that you already<br />
have in your possessi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
The photographer also did<br />
some postproducti<strong>on</strong> work in<br />
<strong>the</strong> previous picture of <strong>the</strong> girl<br />
with <strong>the</strong> teddy bear to add a<br />
bit of sepia t<strong>on</strong>e and create a<br />
vignette. The color judgments<br />
are pers<strong>on</strong>al, but many portrait<br />
photographers vignette images<br />
regularly. This means darkening<br />
<strong>the</strong> edges of a portrait that<br />
is mostly dark or lightening<br />
<strong>the</strong> edges when <strong>the</strong> image is<br />
mostly light. It helps direct <strong>the</strong><br />
eye to <strong>the</strong> subject and makes<br />
<strong>the</strong> edge of <strong>the</strong> image sort of<br />
fade away instead of just cutting<br />
off. The edge darkening<br />
may be obvious, or it may be<br />
so subtle no <strong>on</strong>e notices. (Ansel<br />
Adams believed that practically<br />
all pictures needed a very slight<br />
“burn” <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> edges to center<br />
<strong>the</strong> eye <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> principal subject.)