What is studio lighting?
Studio lighting is referring to when a person/photographer uses an ‘artificial’ light course instead of just natural lighting as with artificial lighting you can create the shapes and shadows a lot easier and everything is to your control unlike natural as if its natural lighting from outside then t really depends on your environment and the nature around you at that time and if its indoors and just a room lighting then you really don’t get any variation within that room.
There are three main/common types of studio lighting techniques which all create their own different effects. These are Rembrandt lighting, butterfly lighting and Chiarscuro.
When taking these photos we had a basic set up of having a stool for the model to sit on and then later if necessary changing the chair to be higher or lower if needed.
I mainly used the white backdrop and then I had the light which I could move around and then to help we used the reflector to reflect some of the light back onto the models face.
I found using the back background worked best for when using the Chiarscuro technique as I found the models face stood out better and the darkness kind of surrounded the model which looked very interesting
Here is the contact sheet for all of the photos I have taken.
