Class Work - Portrait Balancing Strobe with Ambient Light

In-Class Set-Up: Students are encouraged to first create a strong composition with content in critical framing arrangement with the four edges of the image. Once the composition or 'drawing' is in place, we paint with light.  In this case one speedotron strobe head with grid is fired camera left balancing the exposure of our subject who stands in the shade of brick wall with the strong daylight in the background.  Greg Heisler describes intentional composition as the bones of the photograph before you paint with your light. Above is student work executed during class.