Sunday 27 December 2015

Portrait Photography Lighting Tips

Studio lighting terrorizes quite a lot of photographers, however there’s really no thriller about it at all. It is actually about two elements of lighting fixtures: exposure and shadows. Obviously, different things come into play, like hair, composition, background, color, and make-up if you if it is about shooting a model. But these reasons are will come into effect with snap shots that is taken in any environment. Within the studio light, special attention needs to be paid to the exposure relationships between different light sources. Lights need to be placed where the subject looks good.
Shadows become extremely important in that scenario. Before adjustment of light one needs to know about various types of light. Flashes are the most popular & used light by the photographers. It is simply because it is very easy to handle & much lighter than hot light or cool light. Flash light has got more illuminating power. There has got to be four basic lighting element in the photography lighting kit. One is a broad light which will provide light all around the subject, second is the hair light, third is the background light and last is the fill light.
To get the desired photo shoots lighting of the light studio needs to be adjusted properly. There are several lights & lighting techniques that can be applied to do that. One is on-axis light which is placed directly in front of the subject, keeping the light & the subject on the same axis. This type of lighting has got huge popularity in the last decades. It is perfect lighting when the shots are taken in confined places such as hotels or studio lighting kits. This also is very effective in hiding imperfections of the skin of the models. Another way of taking photographs is of-axis lighting. Here the light is usually 15 to 20 degree away from the axis of the model. Generally this used to take the shadows of the nose & chin of the model. This is really worth taking a look and have a comparison with the on-axis light. Shadows is very vital part of photography and that can be exhibited here in this type of lighting.

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