Portrait Lighting - Photo Camp Houston
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My Portrait Lighting slides from PhotoCampHouston. Presentation and images copyright 2007-2009 Jeremey L. Barrett. All Rights Reserved. This means you can't use this presentation or the images therein without my permission.
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Portrait Lighting - Photo Camp Houston
- 1. Portrait Lighting Fundamentals Jeremey Barrett @jeremey jeremeybarrett@mac.com January 24, 2009
- 6. The Right Light The look you want - what are ✤ your goals? Soft? ✤ Harsh? ✤ Contrasty? ✤ Ethereal? ✤ Generally portrait lighting is ✤ trying to be soft ...but not always ✤
- 7. Qualities of Light Soft ✤ Hard ✤ Directional ✤ Diffuse ✤ Contrasty ✤ Flat ✤ Natural ✤
- 8. Light Sources Size: bigger = softer ✤ Distance: closer = softer ✤ Distance: closer = brighter ✤ Harder light = more contrast ✤ Coverage ✤ Angle ✤ Spill ✤
- 9. The Big Source In The Sky Small or large? ✤ Hard or soft? ✤ Time of day ✤ Color ✤ Diffusing ✤ Shadow ✤
- 10. Key Technique: Separation Separate, separate, separate ✤ Subject should not blend into ✤ the background Light the background, not ✤ uniformly Gradients are your friends ✤ Light the background first! ✤ Depth of field ✤ Rim lighting ✤
- 13. Reverse Engineer Where is the light coming ✤ from? How hard or soft are the ✤ transitions from light to shadow? How many light sources are ✤ there?
- 14. Controlling Light Aperture controls how much of ✤ your strobe’s light “gets in” Shutter speed controls how ✤ much of the ambient light “gets in” Inverse square blah-blah-blah ✤ Distance is a powerful tool! ✤ Examples: what color is the ✤ background material?