Controlling Light

Lighting from above Many a photographer, wanting to avoid the flat lighting that

accompanies using their camera’s flash straight on, simply flips the

unit so that it faces skywards. The flash light then bounces off the

ceiling and then onto the subject. The results do provide more texture

in the face, but often the eyes are hidden in the dark shadows of the

brows. Similar results regularly occur when photographing portraits

outside when the sun is high. Top lighting is generally not used for

portraiture for this reason (see Figure 23.5).