Lighting Research

When trying to achieve a professional looking image you need to create the right lighting to make an amazing photo. There are many lighting techniques used to do this which I will follow when I create my own images for my magazine 

Fill-in-light: Using this adds extra lighting with soft boxes and diffusers

Key light: key light is one of the most popular, as it's a powerful source of light which creates shadows with direct light by using a reflector with barn doors. You can also create this with soft light through an umberella 

Setting up flash: set up a background light and a hair light which will allow you to see what light sources these can create. Second you set up the fill light and after that the key light is set up.

Veriety of effects can be made on a models face by having different types of lighting.  The first type is broad lighting which is frontal and three quarter lighting. Frontal lighting is when the lighting appears directly in the face that is facing the camera. Three quarter lighting is a light source that is put next to the camera showing that it shines on the side of the face creating a shadow which is minimal due to it being on the narrow side of the face

There is also short lighting which is three quarter, side, outdoor lighting. Three quarter lighting can illuminate the side of a subject . Lighting from the side can narrow the face. Side lighting with a short light can cause an illumination creating it too look  more dramatic and can even make the face look slimmer. Outdoor lighting creates a focus on direction, colour, quantity and quality of the light when capturing a photo of your model. Daylight can easily change meaning it can effect the outcome

Because I have decided to do a fashion magazine, I'll need to follow lighting techniques that they commonly use in magazine such as having back lighting which shows adds higher quality which then shows off the clothes more