Low-key lighting makes the most of dark tones and shadows to create images with drama and atmosphere. Unlike high-key photography, which requires plenty of natural or artificial light, a low-key lighting shoot requires very little. The backdrop needs to be mostly hidden in the shadows, while particular features on the subject are illuminated to make them stand out. This means that when you’re shooting low-key portraits you don’t need much in the way of lighting kit – a single flashgun mounted off-camera will be adequate. Some DSLRs have an integrated transmitter, which enables you to fire a compatible external flash via the camera’s pop-up flash. If your camera doesn’t have this feature you’ll need a wireless flash trigger, which is mounted on your camera’s hotshoe. For this technique the ambient lighting needs to be as low as possible, so shooting indoors is ideal. You want to eliminate as much of the ambient light as possible, which you can do by narrowing your aperture; a fast shutter speed would achieve the same effect, but on cameras the top flash sync speed is either 1/200 or 1/250 sec. When you expose for the ambient light you don’t need to worry about underexposing your subject, as the flash will illuminate them – you can simply adjust the flash power as required to expose them correctly. — at Mir Photography. https://facebook/pages/Mir-Arif-Photography/367669579990865
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:11:20 +0000
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