Photography- Studio Lighting

In this lesson we covered - 

• the difference in broad and narrow lighting 
• how to pose a model correctly 
• rembrant and carivagio lighting 
• hollywood lighting 

To get broad lighting you must position your model at an angle and shine the light on the broad side of there face . 

This is used for high key portraits and creates a softer shaddow on the person making there face look wide . 

Narrow lighting is where you do the same as broad... but put the light on the narrow side of there face. 

This gives more definded shaddows  giving a slimming look to the portrait. 

you can use these types of lighting to create different styles . 

for example 

rembrant - This ligthing is taken from the painter, rembrant who used lo light his portraits in a way that lit the broad side of there face and created a small triangle of light on the other. 

To create this you put a light with a soft box on one side of the face and position it so a but of light comes above there nose onto the check. 

carivagio - is also after a pinter  who used very strong contrast of shaddows and highlights to creat his paintings.   his work contained elemnts of chiaroscuro (   in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.)   and (Tenebrism)  It’s when a piece has a strong Chiaroscuro, with darkness being a prominent aspect, and usually with the subject emerging from it.

to do this you must position the model an angle and place the light closer to the model to give high contrast. 

hollywood -  this uses high key, narrow lighting and a soft box. to create the beautiful, glowing highlight on the subject’s hair and separate them from the dark background. Place the light slightly off to the side of the subject so that only the edge of the light from the softbox catches the subject’s face — feather it upwards and more to the left, away from your subject. It will also give an edge to the clothing further creating separation.


here are some images i took during this lesson