Studio Lighting Icons
There are plenty of Tosh written about decent studio portraits always requiring five lights. Yes, sure most of us use occasionally, but is altogether more satisfying to see how few you really need to nail all the necessary elements.
We've been experimenting with a light for a while. Perhaps an obvious choice for lighting low profile. We often use a single face to the main light with a black panel between it and the white backgorund to achieve some pleasing results. Add a reflector on the other side of the subject to brighten the shadows very dark, and begins to look good.
Low-key sorted, but what about high key? Impossible? Of course not! The trick here is to put the issue near the bottom and get the main light in close collaboration with a light box largeish (1m square or more) and fishing down around a 30 degree angle. Be sure to install reflectors around the subject. Use one as a kicker, one as a hair light, and one to each side to get rid of the tell-tale shadows on the background and ready …. hey high-key lighting.
Not convinced?
Try it.
Yes, sure there will be a bit of messing about with exposure and reflectors. We tend to use silver as gold can give uneven temperature problems colored and white can be a little flat with a single source of light.
The point I am trying to make is that although most of us use multiple lights, is not be so. If a photographer is just starting out in the picture, he / she need not feel hampered by not having large amounts of kit.
Many of the best photographers in the world were not initially afford to purchase equipment and much had to improvise – often leads to some of the most iconic images twentieth century (and possibly the first twenty) century.
If I'm really honest, usually prefer to work with four or five lights, as I allws to build more in depth of injection, but it hurts us experience from time to time.
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