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Portrait Photography For Everyone by Monte Zucker
Monte Zucker teaches simple lighting patterns to make quality predictable portraits using one lighting pattern, two poses and three camera positions. He demo...
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Portrait Photography Lighting Styles - Rembrandt Lighting
Learning from the old masters The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn used painting techniques suggesting ambient light rendering shadows and highlights which created the illusion of a three dimensional portrait. Filmmakers and photographers have picked up on this technique and applied it to portraiture and scene lighting.
A host of work to analyze Examples of this can clearly be seen in Rembrandt van Rijn's work, which include his many self portraits, A Polish Nobleman, Atemisia, Portrait Of An Old Man In Red and a host of others.
Nothing without light Once the new digital photographer has eventually got to grips with the plethora of equipment that add to the photographic experience, he or she can delve into the exiting world of portraiture and lighting. Photography does not exist without lighting. Rembrandt lighting has become infused as a lighting technique alongside broad portrait lighting, short portrait lighting, split portrait lighting and butterfly portrait lighting.
Similar Technique Rembrandt lighting is similar to short or broad lighting where the key light is placed on the narrow or broad side of the face leaving one section of the face in shadow. Imagine your subject facing directly towards the camera with the key light placed right of the camera, more to the side of the subject and above the head. The subject turns towards the light creating a shadow on the other side of the face. The shadow can be placed on the opposite side by the subject turning away from the key light. This simple technique is enough to create some interest in the portrait and is generally a food starting point.
The essential difference The difference between these lighting techniques and Rembrandt lighting is in the nose shadow. The key light must be placed in a critical position in relation to the subject and the camera so that the nose shadow connects with the large shadow on the same side of the face. This must result in a triangle of light under the eye, Rembrandt's signature in his portraits. The contrast created can be reduced using a fill light with the desired intensity placed on the shadow side of the face or on the camera axis towards the subject.
Dramatic results This lighting style is linked to chiaroscuro lighting where shadow and light are used to sculpture the subject. The effect is dramatic and lends itself to rugged portraits mainly suited to men. Rembrandt implied natural ambient lighting which seemed to favor harsh sunlight or fire sourced light as used in The Night Watch painting. If extended to broader subjects showing location, the low key technique of Rembrandt and chiaroscuro produce dramatic results that have also been exploited by the film industry. This can be seen in old films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, in modern photography and movies softer lighting sources are used while still maintaining the Rembrandt triangle under the eye.
Legacy There is no doubt that Rembrandts legacy exists in the creative lighting techniques developed and employed by the modern photographer and filmmaker to create depth in these essentially flat mediums.
Portrait Photography Lighting Styles - Rembrandt Lighting
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Portrait Photography Lighting Styles - Rembrandt Lighting
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Portrait Photography Lighting Styles - Rembrandt Lighting
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Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 46: Using Natural Light
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Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 46: Using Natural Light
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Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 46: Using Natural Light
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How to Remove the Shadows From Behind a Portrait Subject
Any light source will cast a shadow behind your subject (assuming there's something there for the shadow to be cast onto). Perhaps you've noticed this before in flash pictures--a dark shadow behind your subject? Aren't they just awful? They certainly make a good pose go bad. And it's always the perfect pose or facial expression that gets lost in the unprofessional effect of a shadowed wall or background sitting behind the portrait subject, lovely model, child or family photo.
There are a lot of reasons those shadows appear and there are a lot of ways to make sure those shadows never appear to begin with.
Here is some advise.
First of all, move the portrait subject further away from the wall or background. The further the subject stands from the background the better in this case. Unless you know how to separate the subject from the background with back-lighting then move the subject closer to you (the lens) and further away from the walls behind them.
The general rule of thumb is to move the subject (model) about 4 to 6 feet away or in front of the background. This way the light, when directed into the face of the portrait subject won't fall harshly behind them, rather it will fall off the photo and not appear at all. The light source won't have enough output to hit the background if you sit the subject far enough in front of it.
There is the option of sitting a light directly behind the subject shining onto the background which will eliminate the front light being the only light falling on the background and reduce any unflattering shadows.
How to Remove the Shadows From Behind a Portrait Subject
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How to Remove the Shadows From Behind a Portrait Subject
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Nightclub Photography TV - Ep. 2 Getting Started (Part 1)
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