Lighting Techniques
There are two main types of lighting in photography, natural and artificial. The key to taking good photographs is to understand each type lighting and how to use it to your best advantage. We explain how.
Lighting Solutions
Aaron Rose once said, "In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." It seems to me that the most extraordinary pictures are those taken in natural light.
Lighting ratio
The ratio from the brightest (highlight) to darkest part (shadow)of the subject. A ratio of the brightness of light falling on the subject from the main (key) light and other (fill) lights.
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Light conditions make or break a shot. Color, direction, and light quality are all important variables to consider. Here are a few techniques for getting the things right under tricky conditions.
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Lighting your subject underwater
To advance in underwater photography, it helps to have a thorough understanding of lighting and the properties of water, which we will review below.
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Lighting Spherical Shapes Spherical- or round-shaped products can be just as simply lighted, but this time the basic setup requires five lights.
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Lighting - the pitfalls
Most in-camera flashes lack the power to light subjects more than 3 to 4 metres away, so a more powerful off-camera flash unit will be required.
Lighting Equipment
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Lighting Reflectors
Faced with strong sunlight, the professional photographer will reach for his reflector.
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Lighting ratio
Techniques Glossary Lighting ratio
The ratio from the brightest (highlight) to darkest part (shadow)of the subject.
Lighting kit
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Lighting Ratio
The ratio of Key Light plus Fill vs. Fill Light only, using an Incident Light Meter. If the first is 200 Foot Candles and the second 50, the ratio is 4:1, or a 2-stop difference.
-Lighting
Like all studio work, getting strong enough lighting to light the subject suitably is the tricky bit. Remember that lighting is the most important consideration with photography.
Safelighting
In order to see what you are doing in your darkroom you need some form of lighting which is not going to affect ( fog ) your photographic paper. Film must be handled in complete darkness.
Side lighting
A light striking the subject from the side relative to the position of the camera. It produces shadows and highlights to create modeling on the subject.
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Soft Lighting
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Bounce Lighting
Bounce Lighting, generally used in portrait photography, is lighting that bounces off a particular source (such as an umbrella, wall or blank drop down sheet) to surround the central object with light.
Studio Lighting
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When dealing with studio lights for the first time, it's easy to get bogged down in the "what brand should I get" questions.
Lighting "make a photograph" - a very true and true to life statement, just as "clothes make a man"! Consequently if you are a photographer the importance of correct photography lighting techniques need not be overemphasized.
Lighting and knowing how to use light is an important component to successful photography. When working with figures or portrait photography, the correct placement of your studio lights is critical to achieving good pictures.
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Setting up a home based photography studio can be a real boon to your photography. Getting the lighting and arrangements right is the next step.
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For good portraits or product shots, you need to improve on the camera's built-in flash. Direct on-camera flash creates hard shadows and doesn't give a picture the feeling of texture and depth that you can get from side-lighting.
Lighting can easily make or break your image. Positioned correctly, lighting can add a dramatic effect to your subject as well as accent and pull the subject off the background environment.
Backlighting is generally not recommended for the average person taking a picture. Backlighting, the opposite of front lighting, consists of keeping the sun behind the subject rather than the photographer.
Where lighting is less than optimum, you also have a number of options at your disposal if your camera provides more manual control over its functions.
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Continuous lighting is an alternative to flash lighting. Unlike flash, continuous lights are always on (they're essentially just light bulbs). This makes them easy to set up as the photographer can see how the lighting will look as it is arranged.
Interior Lighting
Distraction Three: Bad Interior Lighting. The worst lighting of all indoors is fluorescent light. Many color film stocks render it with a deathly greenish cast that is very distracting.
Close-up: Lighting for Macro
Small apertures and high magnification leads to dark viewfinders and long shutter speeds. No doubt about it, shooting macro brings with it a need to concern yourself with lighting.
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Depending on the lighting conditions under which an image is made, it may be necessary to make some adjustments to your point and shoot to optimize the exposure.
A simple setup of lighting can help improve those pictures. Better lighting will help you remove that flash glare and the background clutter all at the same time.
This photo of a moose is a good example of both complimentary lighting and shallow depth of field. (You can learn more about both of these topics in my Wildlife Photography online course here at BetterPhoto).
In practical terms we are able to shoot multiple lighting set ups quickly, efficiently, and most important, accurately while still being able to dial in adjustments for dramatic effect.
Episode 11 'Simple Supplementary Lighting'
Simon Plant of Pro Photographer Insights has posted Episode 11 of his digital photography tutorial videos which covers how a simple reflector can help when capturing portrait images.
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Lighting Your Subject
The lighting possibilities are virtually limitless in photography, but the amount of control you have over the lighting conditions depends on your location and your resources.
Lighting is very important. It literally makes the picture. For good lighting, raise the blinds on a window and pull the curtain back [if you have one], that should give you enough lighting.
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Avoid side lighting which exaggerates surface texture.
Use a continuous light source rather than strobe lights.
With your camera on a tripod and your subject holding still, set shutter speeds of between 1 and 2 seconds.
Lighting ratio.
The ratio of the brightness of light falling on the subject from the main (key) light and other (fill) lights. A ratio of about 3:1 is normal for colour photography, greater ratios may be used for effect in black-and-white work.
LIGHTING RATIO - The brightness of the main light (key light) compared with the brightness of the fill light(s). A ratio of about 3:1 is normal for photography.
Lighting for People Photography
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Lighting ratio. The proportional relationship between the amount of light falling on the subject from the main light and other lights.
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D-Lighting A function built into several Nikon D-SLRS and into Nikon's Capture NX2 imaging program that allows you to brighten subjects that have been underexposed or enhance the contrast of an overexposed subject.
Lighting umbrella reflector
This reflector looks like a bright umbrella with a lamp in the middle. Light generated by the lamp is reflected back via the umbrella to the desired object.
Backlighting: Light coming from behind the subject, toward the camera lens, so that the subject stands out vividly against the background. Sometimes produces a silhouette effect.
HMI Lighting
Halide Metal Iodine lighting uses special bulbs and power supplies to produce flicker free lighting. This is useful when using slow digital scanning backs for Large Format cameras.
Backlighting - A photographic environment in which the main source of light is behind the subject.
Side Lighting
Side Lighting is a lighting technique, in which the light source is aimed at the subject from the side. This technique allows for establishing volume and third dimensionality of a subject.
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Back Lighting Compensation (BLC) indicates the image sensor's ability to automatically adjust in conditions where lighting is from behind the camera to deliver the sharpest and highest quality video image possible.
Back-lighting - light directed at the subject from behind the subject. This often causes the subject to be underexposed unless spot metering or exposure compensation is used.
Flat Lighting Lighting that produces very little contrast or modeling on the subject plus a minimum of shadows.
Flip-up flash See "Cobra" Flash.
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