Overview
The importance of natural lighting: it bounces sunlight toward the camera’s subject and makes sure they’re always more lit from the front than from the back. This is what allows photographers to produced detailed, high contrast photos of their subjects. Direction of light: below I have put this image in to visually illustrate how the direction of lighting can alter the shape and shadows around objects.
Hard and soft light are different types of lighting that are commonly used in photography and filmmaking. Soft light is light that tends to “wrap” around objects, projecting diffused shadows with soft edges, whereas hard light is more focused and produces harsher shadows.
Why do we use studio lighting?- this is to create more aesthetic final images, as you can control the angles and lighting. This means that photographers don’t have to rely on the natural environment for lighting, and photos can be taken at any time which is more convenient.
Difference between 1,2 and 3 point lighting- the number represents the numbers of lights, which can be projected from any angle to brighten the model/ subject. With 1 point lighting being more 2 dimensional, and 3 point lighting showing all the features of the subject.
What is fill lighting?- A fill light is responsible for exposing the details of a subject that fall in the shadows of the key light. It is the secondary light in the traditional 3 point lighting setup. The fill light is typically positioned opposite of the key light to literally fill in the shadows that the key light creates.
Chiarascuro
In art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.
High key lighting is used to produce images that encourage an optimistic, upbeat reaction. The photos come out youthful and simple but sophisticated. Low key lighting, on the other hand, produces images that are the opposite of high key photos. Images taken in low key lighting create a mysterious and dramatic mood.
Contact Sheets
Portrait examples
Here I have created a gallery to show my first images, after exporting them into Lightroom Classic and identifying which ones I would like to use, I placed them into a gallery in this format to illustrate the majority of the useable 2 point light image examples. As I have many images but some of them are not 2 point lighting examples.
Final Images
I have selected this as my first final image as I think that the use of the two point lighting really help make Leticia’s facial features stand out, despite the image almost being too over exposed, I think that this actually helps the image stand out more as this creates a huge contrast between her bold features such as her eyes, eyebrows and hair, and it actually brings good attention to this features and makes the image more cohesive as her skin appears very pale because of the editing. Also, I decided to not crop this image down to just her face as I think that the shadows on the left side of her gives the image more depth. I think the clarity of this image is also very important as textures in her hair and hoodie have become more apparent and this contrasts with her smooth skin.
