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 p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Help...How To Shoot a Model in the Moonlight | |
Definitely possible, though challenging due to high ISO and long exposures that would be required. But, the biggest issue, is that the moon is still a single point-like light source. Shooting under a high midnight moon doesn't seem like it would be that different than shooting under bright noon-day sun with a cloudless sky: hard light, only offset by light bouncing off of the surroundings.
If you really choose to go this route, you'll have to think about how you're going to position the model to get light on her face (or whatever parts of her you want to have lit). Maybe consider large white surfaces nearby, like large foldable v-flats or some carefully positioned large reflectors.
I'm guessing you're going to try to capture some of the surroundings or sky or moon as part of this image, right? Otherwise I can't see the insistence on natural moonlight, if you weren't also trying to capture some natural surroundings (or the moon) in the image along with the model. I ask, only to gauge your familiarity with shooting at night or with astro landscape shooting. If you're not that familiar, you should probably read around to come up to speed on techniques and general tips on the topic, and to look at some images to get an idea of how you want yours to look. You'll probably find there are a lot of post processing tricks that help achieve some of the more dramatic (as well as some of the more natural looking) results. Also, there is a fair amount of - let's provocatively call it - "trickery" with a lot of people using light painting and merging dusk/dawn/twilight shots of foreground with later shots of sky.
It seems like it might just be easier to use artificial light and control it carefully to give off the illusion of natural light, if the goal is to snap one single picture.
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