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Sammz
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Portrait lighting - opinions please


Hello

First time posting here. I am so glad to have found this forum 

I’ll kick off with something hopefully fairly simple. Please see pic attached, would love opinions on how to achieve this sort of lighting?

These portraits appear to have very little spill which I quite like, but I would also like to try it with a little more spill too. Looking at the catch lights, am I right this has been achieved using a clamshell set up?

Thank you!


















Apr 24, 2015 at 10:51 AM
Nate Haskovec
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Portrait lighting - opinions please


Just typical key light/fill light.

First one, key light is camera left, power is higher than fill light.

Second one, they are equal power

Third appears there are two, but close together with subject facing away.

The shadows and lower lip highlights all look like the lights are slightly above the subject and mildly angled down.

The falloff indicates no backlighting and the lights are either several stops above ambient, or they are in front of a black backdrop.




Apr 24, 2015 at 11:29 AM
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Thanks Nate


Apr 24, 2015 at 03:16 PM
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These are interesting portraits and well done.

However, most of the effect is not with the simple lighting scheme (although important), but in very well done interpretive image processing in Photoshop -- the difficult part.



Apr 24, 2015 at 03:49 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Portrait lighting - opinions please


This is standard lighting, in fact any lighting and heavy processing for all three pics.

Lighting cannot deliver such renders.

All catchlights are PS generated and all irises and scleras retouched ad nauseum.

D&B all over each shot + vignette + HP + noise....etc.

It is pretty easy to convert any portrait to any of these types of images.

You have to look at the processing and not the lighting.

Nothing special here.




Apr 25, 2015 at 05:58 AM





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