Portraiture can at That’s why this month we’re taking portraits back to basics using a single continuous light bulb to achieve three completely different looks. You can take these shots at home with a basic setup, you’ll need a dark background, a few lightstands, a curtain pole and then a few extra props that we run through below. The three techniques we cover in this project are the perfect place to start with artificial light in a studio setting as we’re using constant lighting. This is different from flashguns which don’t have a modelling light, so will be much easier to tweak the lighting and get the shadows falling on your model precisely where you need them to. Let’s get to it!
