Lab 4- Portrait lighting

Loop

Above for my first image the technique I tried to accomplish was the Loop effect. This effect is done with the light from a 45 degree angle in front of the subject but slightly above so the light creates a loop effect on the face like the captured shot above.

f/5.6 1/5 ISO 200

Broad

This shot captured resembles a broad shot, where the light is angled close to the camera at a 45 degree angle and broadens the face in the shot. Leaving the side of the face closest to the light brighter that the side that is away from it.

f/5.6 1/5 ISO 200

Rembrandt

This name given by the famous Dutch painter for the use of lighting around the eye area, shows a triangle shape lights highlighting the area with the shadows carved out by the face as best shown in my shot above.

f/5.6 1/8 ISO 200

Split

For this shot, This effect is used for dark capture shots for horror genres to give a scared or scary sense. As shown above, only half the face is in light as the light is at a 90 degree position, straight onto the side of the face producing a shadow on the other side.

f/5.6 1/15 ISO 200

Butterfly

For the final shot, The use of the Butterfly effect is shown to highlight cheekbones and cast a small shadow under the nose making the face look longer and more defined.

f/5.6 1/30 ISO 200

Although I enjoyed creating these types of shots, the difficulty I ran into while capturing these ranged from having no other model to use resulting in using myself. And having no tripod or SoftBox lighting to use.

So the resources I was left to use included a small attachable tripod that I mounted on a high enough platform so it was in line with my shots I needed. The light source I used was my lamp with the shade detached, that had a bright Golden/Yellow colour bulb that was not blinding to look at, which in the shots came across softer than white lights or natural lighting used.

For the camera techniques, all was shot on the Canon M50 on a standard 15-45mm lens. With the ISO brought up to 200 I felt the lighting looked warmer and the shutter speed being not too high and from 1/8 to 1/30 was perfect capture for these.

If I was to reshoot these pictures I would try and use a flash, and flash defuser and see how the lighting is kept using that type of shot

I thought the shots executed resembled the original effects pretty well and to the best with the resources I had for this project.