Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Studio Lighting

We spent today in the studio experimenting with various types of lighting. I found this a really useful excersise, although I have used studio lighting before, it has been my preference to date to shoot high key images and it was interesting to see the different effects we could create by simply repositioning the lights. 
The images below are from our session in the studio. We experimented with various light positions and used mostly variations in aperture to control the exposure (occasional adjustments to the lighting units themselves where made).


Rembrandt lighting

f/6.3 1/160 ISO 100


f/18 1/160 ISO 100
f/11 1/160 ISO 100 Gold reflector on subjects lefft side



Hollywood Lighting

f/10 1/160 ISO 100

f/8.0 1/160 ISO 100

f/5.6 1/125 ISO 100

f/5.0 1/125 ISO 100 Gold Reflector to subjects left side




Butterfly Lighting

f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100

f/14.0 1/125 ISO 100

f/14.0 1/125 ISO 100

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100 Gold reflector below subject.



Side Lighting

f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100

f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100

f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100

f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100 Gold reflector to subjects left side


Broad and Short Lighting


"Broad" f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100

"Short" f/13.0 1/125 ISO 100


Back lighting

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100
High Key 


f/10.0 1/125 ISO 100

f/7.1 1/125 ISO 100
Other experimentations!

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100 - Hair light, overexposed due to the main light being set too high.

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100 - Hair light

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100 - fill light only to the subjects left side

f/18.0 1/125 ISO 100 - fill light only to the subjects left side

f/25.0 1/125 ISO 100 - High key lighting on the background, no lighting on the subjects.

f/25.0 1/125 ISO 100 - High key lighting on the background, no lighting on the subjects.

f/22.0 1/125 ISO 100 - High key lighting on the background, no lighting on the subjects.


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