Portraits with only 1 light source!

So all of these portraits of my friend Raquel, were done with my canon 50mm 1.8 lens. I love these lens! Plus they are cheap!!

For this blog post, I wanted to share some insight on how to shoot portraits on a budget! I don't have a studio and so I have to improvise. These portraits were done with a light that I purchased at Home Depot. My light was about $20. I put my camera on auto white balance at times and sometimes on Tungsten.

I also don't have a light stand so I used a microphone stand and hung the light from that.

My solution was very simple and it worked! At least I like to think so!

Enjoy!