Digital Practice- Portraiture

The use of a beauty dish was our source of low key lighting, the black back drop adds to the darkness of the low key lighting.

The use of two sot boxes lights the background and also the model, the use of a white back drop also lights up the image which helps show that the lighting was set to be high key lighting.

Lighting is a key element in portraiture as it effects your image in a big way as if you want low light images then you would use a snoot attachment which directs light in one direction but if you want high key lighting then you would use a soft box which lights up the model and you would use another soft box and direct it towards the back drop which also lights up the image so depending on the lighting you want, depends on the image you or your model wants to capture.

If you wanted to create a eerie/Halloween type of image then you could use a large soft box behind a white screen then get somebody to stand behind the white screen but in front of the soft box then get them to gently place their hands on the screen and then ask your model to look scared/on edge that way the image becomes more "believable" however if you turn off the light used at the side of the model but add a colored gel to the soft box then you get more of a "eerie" image.