Studio photography

Trying out different natural lighting techniques, how they reflect and their effects on a subject. At first positioning a white board behind George and him facing the large widows in the studio, then taking a portrait photograph of him with thelight falling onto his face.

The light outside was quite dull and cold.

Colour temperature / white balance

as you can see it gave the same effect of light on Georges face, the lighting is

quite dull and dark. Some features such as the nose and under eye areas have been emphasised, due to the dull lighting. It seems to have given a very matt look to Georges face with the

 shadow picking up too much detail of his facial features. the light reflecting onto the white

board behind him and escaping back out of the window, there is no direction of illumination

 hitting the subjects face at this point. white balance/

 

Then using a white board infront of the subject, with this the light fro

m the window behind and  was reflected on to the white board and then reflected on to the the subjects face at an angle just above the chin.

With this lighting effect the subjects facial features have not been enfacised as much. There are still sum slight shadowed areas such as the fore head and under eye area, but this technique dose give more bright and fresh  look to his face, on a day such as this one.

The next technique was to use 3 white boards around the subject at his left, his right, and above him making a doorway in the middle for the photographers view. As you can see in the image above this technique gives an over all softer look the angle of light is hitting the subjects face at his left, right and above there fore illuminating all of his face chancing no cast shadows

 caused by his facial features. this lighting technique was probably the most successful and         effective lighting for the natural light to complement the face.

This type of lighting would also be quite usefull for a female model, as it gives such a soft effect to the face.

The next type of natural lighting that was used was daylight from above, no surrounding light. the day light is still dull and quite cold. This type of lighting is making the bone structure of the subjects face more prominant, casting various shadows upon the more larger surfaces of the face.

I have also thought that this kind of lighting technique is not completely useless, if you are trying to make a face look more masculine, for example if a male has quite soft features and the face needs a more harsh / harder look lighting from the top would be a useful technique.to in a way harden the soft edges.

Next we have lighting from above with the subjects head raised and looking up at the light above him. The subject looking upwards the light is illuminating the wider and more raised  serfaces on the face such as the cheeks, nose , chin and fore head. due to the wider surfaces on the face being illuminated this gives a more softer look to the subjects face, the light is being able to reach the contours of the face. there fore no harsh definition occuring.