What makes an epic photography lighting?
How much do you know about photography lighting? What kind of lighting do you know about? In this post I’m going to be talking about different kind of lighting. The first picture was taken with natural light. During that day, the light was very bright and by positioning a model by the pond, the water can reflect the light and will lit the persons face, even though the light source (sun in our case) is in the back. There are different kinds of lighting when you use auxiliary lights. So why is photography lighting so important and what make an epic photography? Obviously it’s how you position your lighting sources and how many of them you use.
Split Lighting – It’s when one part of the face is lit up and the other is black.
Rembrandt – It’s when the shadow is on one part of the face. See example on the second photo.
Loop lighting – is when the light is coming from top, about 25% angle of the model creating a shadow on the side of the face.
Butterfly – a small butterfly shadows appear under the nose and creates a glamorous look.
You can see some great examples of these types of lightings on Caryn Esplin’s website under people: http://www.carynesplin.com/people/
Natural Lighting:
This one was taken used just the natural lighting from the sun reflected from the lake. Nothing fancy, but you can make an epic photography lighting photos just by using natural light sources.
Rembrandt Light pattern:
For this one I’ve used one speed light with a modifier to soften the light. In order to get a shot with rembrandt light pattern, you need to position the light just a little on the side of the person’s face. It gives amazing shadows and lights up the face very nicely.
Photo with a speed light:
This one is another example of a rembrandt patter, but it’s almost split lighting. You can see how much difference an auxiliary light can make when you are shooting in the daylight with the sun right behind the person. Photography lighting makes a huge difference. See the photo below to see a picture without any auxiliary lighting.
Same photo, but without any lighting.
