Here are some self portraits again. As always, I recommend attempting self portraits every now and then particularly if you photograph people so you and better relate with your subjects. This sort of exercise also helps you better understand posing and makes it easier to give directions in posing. Afterall, it is a lot easier to tell someone to get into the pose you have in mind if you have already practiced that pose yourself.
Anyway, I utilized light feathering in this photo session. That is, I placed the light in such a way that the primary light hitting me was just light spill over. The light in question was a photography strobe with an octagon softbox. No grid this time because I needed the light spill over. From there, I lined up the edge of the softbox with my head. Doing this casts a very clear shadow line on my face when I face the camera, so I turned to face the light more. Again, the soft box was mostly past me, so the light I do have is mostly spill over meaning less light and weaker light.
Light feathering is a great tool for low key lighting but also in scenarios where you need a weaker light, but can’t take your light down much further or just want a larger spread of the light. Practicing with it on a single light will help you not only understand how to utilize it better but also understand better how your light is spilling over when you use multiple lights.