Why is studio lighting important?
Studio lighting is an essential addition to most photographers’ arsenal. It allows us to create natural lighting effects in a variety of situations, and is far more controllable than a flash. It also adds mood and atmosphere.
3-Point Lighting
It is used in photography, cinematography, and 3D visualizations, it is used to properly illuminate a subject in an effective and pleasing way by simply using three separate lights.
Fill Light
It is a supplementary light mainly used to lighten shadows in an image. Fill light is often used in portrait photography to create a contrast between the image subject and image background giving the scene a sense of depth
Chiaroscuro
technical term used by artists to describe their drawings or paintings that showed bold contrast and distinct areas of light and darkness.
Lighting Test
Because I was at home and had no one the photograph I used Blender and the lights in that program to experiment with lights.
Natural Light
Natural light is anything that produces light by itself. Natural sources of light include the sun, stars, fire, and electricity in storms.
Light intensity refers to the strength or amount of light produced by a specific lamp source.
The direction of the lamp determines the shadows and highlights
Light temperature, determines if the image has a blue tint or a orange tint. If it is balanced then it will appear normal and the white tones will appear white.
Golden hour is the first hour after sunrise and the last hour of light before sunset that produces a warm natural light. That window of time is determined by where you are geographically, as well as the season.
A reflector is a tool that helps a photographer to manipulate the light by providing another surface for the light to bounce off of.
My Photos
Final Photo 1
I like this photo as there is not direct eye contact in the photo, although it is still set up. I used 1 light to get the face highlighted and the background darker, this make it so that you focus more on the face. The background is also plain which attracts more attention to the subject. To edit it, I boosted the contrast and the saturation the add more pink to the face.
Experimenting with colours
I used some coloured filters on the lights, which created a coloured glow.
It made unique contrasts and clashes between the light different lights.
Final Images
I like this image as the white light is softly projected on the face, which highlights his facial features. The red draws attention to the image, and draws anyone in that looks at it. Also, the subject is centered, which is a nice touch.
I like how the images appears to merge out of the darkness, with the red glow, which gives off an evil glow.