The Pro Photo Business Forum

Each week the PPBF gives its readers a new challenge to it’s readers designed to help their studios grow. Sometimes the assignment involves shooting, and sometimes the assignment calls for a particular action to be taken.

This Weeks Challenge:
Fill Flash

Have you ever looked at someone’s outdoor photographs and the face was so dark you couldn’t tell who it was? And don’t you just hate those “raccoon eyes” portraits? You know what I mean; the ones with big circles of shadow under your subject’s eyes?

This can really be a problem with outdoor portraits made with the sun shining behind your subject, directly toward the camera. If you photograph your subject and didn’t use a flash, chances are the subject’s face was too dark or had harsh shadows under the eyes.

You can really increase the quality of your photography with the right amount of fill flash. Fill flash will help to resolve this problem for you. This weeks assignment; use flash to illuminate your backlit subject.

The Process:

1. Complete the assignment and place the results on your own blog, linking back to the challenge post.
2. Post a comment on this blog entry that you have completed the assignment with a link back to your blog entry.   A link will be posted at the bottom of the assignment pointing back to your blog entry, thus creating a reciprocal link and helping with your SEO.
3. The winner of the assignment will be posted in the following weeks assignment.

If you wish, you can place the following graphic above in your blog post to show your readers your participation in the weekly challenge.

Links to completed challenges:
Houston Wedding Photographer, Aric C. Hoek of Solaris Studios has completed his challenge.
Professional Photographer Leanne Wildermuth – Artist By Nature has completed the challenge.