I have new projects and I want to continue blogging specially about photography and all the cool stuff that I’ve been learning during all this time.
I’m into fashion and planing to do wedding photography too, so stay close and see what’s going to happen here.
I’ve been learning a lot at the event space in B&H , I really recommend it if you are close to the NY area, they always have amazing photographers in different areas and I find very helpful all their advice, tricks, tips for photography, lighting and also how to make profit out of it; they also have talks about video and other topics, but most are photography related.
If you can’t attend the events, just go to the B&H event space web site and check out the videos of some of the talks.
Anyway, I went to B&H and Joey Quintero was talking about “Low Key Lighting” and all the cool stuff that we can do with this nice technique, that was very cool and I’m planing to practice this technique soon and of course sharing with all of you.
At the event, one of the guys was telling me that his studio is more for “high key lighting” and to make a long story short, he invited me to do a test shoot there. At that time the only thing that I knew about high key was the name and the few points that Joey said when he compared it to the low key, but I accepted and arranged a shoot with Sherelle and Angel to go to his studio and test it.
Basically High Key Lighting is a bright and even picture. The main color is usually white but it’s not necessary, these days the picture doesn’t have to be white but it has to be very bright, should have a minimum of contrast and very few shadows. One important thing is, more than just lighting your subject, you should be careful to contour your subject. We should use a very low contrast ratio such as 2:1, which means that the background is twice as light as the subject.
Here are some examples:
Here are more images of the session where I tried some of the high key Lighting techniques. (Hopefully I’ll go to Joey Quintero’s next workshop where he’s going to talk about high key.)
Hey, I’m learning.. this was a test and I think it that came out very nice. Feel free to leave your comments and if you know how to make a nice high key.. just let me know!.
