high key Lee
The key (oh yes, haha) to making high key portraits is to create lighting with a two stop difference between the subject and the background, and to overexpose the whole thing by about a third to half a stop. The accepted definition of high key is a photograph in which 75% or more of the area is light or white. In those terms, this isn’t as high key as it could be, but we were practising.
The background is 6 feet (or more) away, lit by two lamps with softboxes. The subject is also lit with a large softbox from both sides. If you see any grey in the background, the whole thing needs to be lighter, and the stop difference checked.
It would be really dead useful for these to find a bit of graphic art software, or better still a web-based app to make lighting diagrams. You know, line drawings of the camera, lights, softboxes, reflectors, graphical elements that you could move around a page with your mouse. Anybody know of something like that out there that would work with OSX?
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