When my group and I gathered for our first assignment, "Documentary Portrait", it was a very cold and overcast day. Some members of the group seemed to be concerned with what could be considered poor lighting as the sun was no where to bee seen. I mentioned that for this particular project, shooting a structure and not a person, it would work very well. The positives of this natural diffused lighting is that we wouldn't get any hard edges or heavy contrasts, and the light would be consistent and "spread out" evenly, leaving no issues with having to work around the light. If we were to shoot a portrait of a person then we would want to have a bit more directionality to highlight certain areas of our subjects facial features. But as we were using a house and its surroundings, the diffused lighting from heavy cloud cover, balanced the light evenly for us and allowed our group to have some good lighting for our Documentary Portrait.
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