Wedding Photographer, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Posts tagged studio
Lighting in Portrait Photography
Mar 29th
Portrait Photographer Wakefield
A photographer I follow on twitter recently tweeted about a sort of lighting mega resource in a post called 20 Resources that will get you lit. I have only glanced at it but there seems to be a load of great links to anything related to lighting, well worth a look. So with this in mind I thought I would post a shot from a recent portrait photography shoot I did in my studio in Wakefield. We usually use a clean white background to provide the modern high key type look which works really well but I like to try and mix things up from time to time.
Modelling with my coloured backgrounds
Feb 28th
I’ve recently got some coloured gels for my studio lights as I wanted to do something a little different than the white background studio photography shots. The background is just grey but if you put a gel in front of the background light you can turn it any colour you like and as the colour of the background can really alter the mood of a photo, they are very handy to have. The lighting was a little more sophisticated than my usual lifestyle portraits so we couldn’t do a lot of moving about but as I was just doing test shots it was no big deal. So with the help of a very photogenic friend I did a few test shots and was quite happy with how they came out. Although she isn’t a model, she is very comfortable in front of the camera, I knew this as I covered her wedding last year (she was the bride going over the stepping stones at Bolton Abbey). It’s always easy to work with people who are very natural when they are having the photo taken, be it in the studio or out and about. I might look at doing some time for print shots with models looking to build up their portfolios as it’s mutually beneficial, but that’s probably a bit down the road.
Model portrait photography with colourful backgrounds
Model portrait photography with colourful backgrounds
Lighting wise I used a beauty lighting setup where there was a large softbox overhead providing top down lighting and a large triflector in front and below bouncing back up to the models face, there was also two lights to the left and right behind the model providing a little hair and rim lighting, these were small speedlights. The forth light was my background light with the coloured gels, the tone of the background depended on the power of the background light, if I wanted a light, hi key tone I put it up quite high, if I wanted a darker more saturated tone I lowered it, this gave me a good range with each colour. The shots were taken with a 70-200 lens at f/11, ISO 100. Thanks for looking guys.