How to Shoot Fashion Portraits in Your Garage | Inside Fashion + Beauty Photography w/ Lindsay Adler

The light created from a garage door can be absolutely stunning. In fact, if you understand the variables available to you, you can create beautiful images AND a lot of variety.

This quality of light is a favorite among many fashion photographers. It can be ideal for creating comp card (promotional) shots for models and even full fashion editorials.

Although the environment of a garage is not necessarily ‘fancy’, it’s all about the end quality of the images. For these shots, we selected a canvas background and a simple (but stylish) wardrobe to create clean and timeless shots that would be great for the model’s portfolio.

Let’s take the 4 variables utilized to create several dramatically different but equally striking images for this fashion portrait shoot in your garage!

1. Distance of Subject to Front of Garage:

The further the subject is from the front of the garage, the more flat the light will be. Further, away will also decrease contrast as well as the amount of light. When the subject is a bit further back in the garage this is ‘covered shade’ with no light coming from above the subjects. This often results in large catchlights and very flat, even results.

When the subject is up close to the very front of the garage, the light will be more directional. A bit of top-down, ‘open shade’ light will create more sculpting to the cheekbones and higher contrast to the light.

2. Distance of Background to Subject:

The closer the background is to the subject, the lighter the background will appear. Due to the fall-off of light (inverse square law), the closer the subject and background are to one another, the more similarly lit they will be. The further back we push the background from the subject, the darker it will appear.

3. Camera Angle:

By changing my camera angle, I can introduce more shadow and sculpting to the light. While the position of the garage door stays the same, I can rotate the model’s angle and my camera position to introduce more shadow. As I move further and further around to the side I can actually create ‘short light’ where the shadow side of the subject’s face is closer to the camera, creating lower-key results.

4. Negative fill or reflectors:

Negative fill and reflectors allow you to control light. By introducing negative fill to the scene (here we used black V-flats on both sides of the subject) we are able to control the bounce of light and therefore create more definition on her cheekbones.

When we add a white reflector (here a folded white V-flat under the torso), we create brighter catchlights to the eyes and more fill overall to the shots.

Working with this beautiful model we were able to create a lot of variety in a very small space, with minimal gear, and within a very short period of time. The shots look classic, timeless, and beautifully lit, even though all we used was the light coming in from a garage door.

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Photographer: Lindsay Adler
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Makeup: Joanne Gair
Hair: Linh Nguyen
Styling: Raytell Bridges

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