Lighting Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios: Strategies for Digital Photographers

In the digital world, however, things are simpler. To control how your camera “sees” color, you adjust its white-balance setting ...

down to cover the mask of her face (the forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, lips, and chin). Two White Lightning strobes were aimed at ...

graphic designer with whom you will work. Be creative. Give them a variety of options—maybe even something you try in postproduc ...

square of the change in distance from the light to the subject. This sounds confusing, but what it means is that if you double t ...

Objectives. When lighting a model, you must make many decisions. Often, your objec- tives will be dictated by the model or the c ...

The answers depend on the look you’re trying to create. Placing the main light directly in front of the model creates a smooth, ...

Practical Example: Lighting the Mask of the Face.In the following ex- amples (images3-3,3-4,3-5,3-6, and3-7), you can see that w ...

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and minimizes facial flaws. The light fills in the hollows of the eyes and all the facial creases, creating a much more desirabl ...

Fill Light. The fill light is a secondary light source used to lighten the shadows created by the main light. This is normally p ...

light can be be created using any light source (electronic flash, studio lights, etc.), but creating fill light with a reflector ...

3-11.This image was created with only the background light on. 3-12.This image was created with only the hair light on. 3-13.Thi ...

feet from the strobe was f/32). A gel(see page83) was alsotapedaround the flash tube to create a warm coloration. Because of the ...

Lighting Outdoors and On Location. Lighting outdoors and on location is similar to lighting in the studio, insofar as you will b ...

Naturalvs.Artificial Light. There are two sources of light: natural (which includes sunlight, moonlight, and reflected light fro ...

shutter speed,and ISOas needed.For the most accurate results, it’s advisable to use an incident light meter and monitor the amou ...

unedited, allowing you to fully appreciate the differences in quality between them. All of the images were shot at^1 / 200 secon ...

the previous one; the image sensor can no longer handle the large difference in exposure between the bright sunlight and the hea ...

fashion images are actually shot this way because of the way the harder light enhances the texture of the clothing. In this situ ...