When your outside on a hot Summer day, taking pictures of a person, you may notice that there are a lot of shadows on their face. You may wonder how professionals remove these shadows and make their subjects face look bright. While there are many different techniques out there and some do work better than other, I think that all photographers would agree that using a reflector is the easiest and lcheapest way to remove shadows.
Reflectors are a flexible circle that can be used to reflect sunlight onto your subjects face.
When a reflector is held under your subject's face, towards the sun, it can project the sunlight back onto the subject's face, removing all shadows. As shown in the example below.
(not my photograph)
A real reflector is really cheap and can also be easily made at home. An ever cheaper version of a reflector that a lot of photographers use is a car sunshield. These have the same reflective properties of a reflector, and they even come in small circles and look exactly like a reflector.
Reflectors are a compact and easy way for anyone to lighten up their photograph and give it a little proffesional touch.
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