High key
A scene with delicate tones or pastel colours. A photograph which contains large areas of light tones, with few middle tomes or shadows.
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Techniques Glossary High key
A high key image mostly consists of highlights and midtones, is generally bright and even, and delicately toned, often with pastel and/or white shades.
What is High Key Photography?
High key photography uses unnaturally bright lighting to blow out most or all harsh shadows in an image.
High Key
High Key is a lighting descriptive term that is characterized by having the fill light be at or near the key (or main light) to produce a more uniformly illuminated image. High Key images have low contrast.
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HIGH KEY - An image that is mainly made up of light tones, which relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
HIGHLIGHT - The brightest area of a subject or scene.
High key
Term describing a photograph which contains large areas of light tones, with few mid-tones or shadows.
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High Key An image distinguished by overall bright, light tones. High-Magnification Viewfinder A viewfinder used for viewing the entire image at a magnification higher than that with a standard viewfinder.
high key image
an image that is mostly white.
high performance plastic
plastic that is suitable for use above 175ºC (347ºF).
High Key: An image that mainly consists of highlights and midtones.
High Key
Lighting that results in predominantly middle-gray to white tones. Tip: Use white or light sets, wardrobe, and Makeup; also, soft Flat Light, Back Light, and possibly camera-lens Diffusion.
High key
A light image that is intentionally lacking in shadow detail.
High-bit
An RGB system or image containing more than 24 bits of colour data per pixel.
High key. Low key. You would think I was talking about playing a musical instrument when in fact I am talking photography. High-key lighting refers to lighting that eliminates shadows, while low-key lighting creates shadows .
High key image with the majority of the pixels to the right of center of the graph ...
High key: Describes an image consisting of light and delicate tones.
Highlights: Brightest and lightest parts of a subject.
High key - photograph which contains large areas of light tones, with few middle tomes or shadows.
“High key effects can be cool and fun, but I'm not really sure if it works for this image.' —Jack Howard
© Rakesh Dhiman. Gear: Nikon D40 with 18-55mm kit lens. Exposure: f/5.6 at 1/8 sec, ISO 200, Exposure Compensation -.3 stops.
Kitten, high key photo
Image stabilization
Is a useful feature found in many new cameras. Image stabilization can either be implemented in the camera itself or in lenses for DSLR.
- Auto
- High Key
- Normal
- Low Key
Set the type of gradation, High Key extends bright gradations, Low Key extends dark gradations.
HIGH KEY-A term applied to a photographic print or subject consisting entirely of light tones with little contrast; also applied to a method of lighting a subject.
High Key High key subjects concentrate on the white or light tones, and using soft and flat overall lighting to minimize shadows.
For Picture #3 We used one of my favorite high key lighting set-ups. The subject needed a portrait for the cover of his latest music CD. We used the white seamless paper and gave him a comfortable looking pose by laying him on the paper.
A softbox will make a great light source for backlighting fairly thin foods and light colored liquids as well as providing a nice high key background. A diffusion panel will also work as will a thin piece of white Plexiglas.
See last month’s article titled High Key/Low Key for more information. Spotlighting effects can be added to just the face that allow the rest of the light to quickly fall off. This draws attention to it.
High key shooting is not for me, but who am I to tell someone that they have overexposed their image, if they have creatively chosen to do so?
A wide variety of other scene modes are present such as Silhouette, High Key, Low Key, Beach / Snow, Food, etc. which can be accessed by selecting Scene on the mode dial and rotating the command dial.
Most properly exposed images will appear as a Gaussian (bell-shaped) curve and not run pixels off either end of the graph. High key images or those with excessive shadow detail won’t fit this average scenario.
Selective Exposure: Photographers sometimes deliberately manipulate the exposure to create a specific effect (e.g., deliberate overexposure to create a high key effect) even though it alters what was seen.
Since the contrast issue can also affect very bright subjects, I've also heard of people who shoot high key shots at ISO 64. Personally, I've never found this to be an issue although I do watch the highlights to avoid blowing them out.
If for instance you feel the mood of an image is enhanced by darkening a stormy sky with -1/2 EV or creating a high key portrait by compensating with +1/2 EV please do so.
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