ONE POINT LIGHTING

One point lighting is formed by one main lighting source, it could be the sun or a studio red head light. The single source of light creates a a natural yet dramatic look, that draws people attention to the subject as they are lit up. One point light tends to hit people straight on and flat, which creates shadows from the subject. One point lighting is used when using the chiaroscuro.

Here are some photos from using one point lighting. I used manual focus which meant I had to constantly adjust my technical settings so that my images weren’t over exposed. My shutter speed was firstly set to 1/80 which was too slow as it was letting in too much light, meaning my photos become over exposed and too bright, I had also not yet adjusted my white balance, these are the first few photos I took;

I then moved on to adjusting my shutter speed to a faster fraction, which was 1/400 and that made my images to dark as the camera wasn’t allowing in enough light, this is what the images looked like;

Finally I adjusted my shutter speed to 1/250 and my white balance to the tungsten setting. This allowed me to take sharper images, with more focus. But when the subject moved it meant I had to change my shutter speed to a faster fraction to make sure  capture the subject sharply and in focus not a blur. This is what my image looked like;

In this image the focus is off this is because I hadn’t adjusted my focus lens and also my subject was moving and I wasn’t on a fast enough shutter speed to be able to capture him sharply.

When taking these images, I managed to take e a few images in the style of Chiariscuro, this was done my shining the light on the side of his face which created a shadow on one side and highlighter the other side.

EVALUATION

This was my first time in the studio so I had to learn how to change my settings to fit the type of lights we were using, along with getting in the right place and angle to take the best photos. This shoot was definitely a learning experience as I learnt types of lighting, and what settings are best for different types of lighting. In the next shoot I need to take more photos, as in this shoot I didn’t take enough as I was to busy trying to get the angle I wanted instead of working with what I had.