Lighting Homework

We tried to recreate the lighting in the following photos.(My laptop wouldn't let me copy and paste the original photos into the blog entry.)

1. Image A.

To achieve the lighting in this photo we had the fill light on brightly and the backlight on at half the brightness of the fill light. This photo turned out too bright compared to the lighting in the original photograph because the  lights were on a bit too brightly and the light is reflecting off of the board behind.

Image C

 The lighting in this photo is really terrible.  We just used the key light for this photo.The lighting is meant to just be directed onto the face, leaving the rest of the frame in darkness however, our light was too far away from the person's face which made the light reflect off of the white board in the background. Also, we positioned the light at eye level with the person, whereas it should have been below the face.

2.Silhouette effect

To achieve this effect we used the backlight on it's own positioned behind the subject.This lighting effect was the easiest  for us to achieve.

Examples of...

Frontal Key Light Only

This effect is quite natural, however the lighting is very strong which is good for showing the character's facial expression

Key Light and Fill

This creates a very natural effect which is quite soft and would be used in unthreatening scenes and in conversation

Bottom up lighting only

This effect is very dramatic and quite scary. It is good for distorting the face and creates a threatening feeling.

Top Lighting Only

This effect is also dramatic and like the bottom lighting only it distorts and hides parts of the face.

Side Light Only

This effect is dramatic and helps to give the shot depth instead of looking like a flat image. It also brings attention to one part of the shot

Backlight Only

By Colette. Photos by Rhiain. Lighting by Charlie and Colette :)