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Saturday, 5 November 2011

Combined lighting

These photos were taken with a 3 light set-up, one main light, one fill light and one background light. We moved them around, turned them up and down and turned some off and kept other on to see what outcomes we could get. 
ISO - 100, f8, 1/100
The photo shown above was taken with the fill light. The fill light softens the shadows produced by the main light but for this particular image we only had the fill light lighting the subject.

ISO - 100, f6.3, 1/100
The photo shown above was taken with the hair and fill light. The hair light is aimed at the hair, usually from above and slightly behind; it gives a nice glow in the hair on the side the light is shining at.

ISO - 100, f6.3, 1/100
The photo above was taken with back lighting, hair lighting and the fill light. Back lighting can produce a silhouette so to stop this a large reflector should be set up infront of the subject to bounce the light coming from behind onto the subject and the surrounding walls.

ISO -100, f10, 1/100
ISO -100, f10, 1/100
 These two photos shown above were taken using the main light and the rim light. The main light is the primary light source, it's usually the brightest one and it casts the biggest or most obvious shadows. The rim light is places behind the subject aimed at the back of the head so as you can see in these photos it highlights the edge of the hair.
ISO - 100, f6.3, 1/100
The photo shown above was taken with high key lighting. This is very popular with family portraits and model photos because the white background and pale complection upon the face looks very clean and smooth. The whiteness of the background also suggests innocence, purity and freshness.  

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