Day 152 Lighting Set-up...

Day 152 -Lighting Set-up...

The following tutorial shows how to shoot low key portraits in day light...

- Expose location until just black. In this case ISO 100 - 1/200 secs - F/8

- Make sure the shot just about goes black so you can shoot with strobes on lowest power possible

- Now Introduce strobes/ Flash

- Start with key light. Adjust power and angle until happy. In this case 1/1 power zoomed at 70mm

- Then add fill. Use a softer light source (Softbox, umbrella)

- Adjust angle and power until happy. In this case 1/2 with softbox

(Both images above display light sources described only)

- Final image with both strobes together.

- The fill light illuminates the subject giving soft glow with soft shadows

- key light gives a hard edge to shot making it more 3D and detached from dark background

- There are many different ways to tweak this set-up, this is just a basic example -

Hope it helps...