Four Classic Lighting Techniques

This assignment involved us shooting another person using the four classic lighting techniques. The featured person is Lynn McGrier poshwithlynn.wordpress.com. 

First is the Rembrandt lighting technique. The key light is set high  and a downward angle at 45 degrees to the front of Lynn. The film light is set on the opposite side of the key light, even to Lynn's face. The back light is set high and behind Lynn at a 45 degree angle and the same side as the key light.

The Split lighting  technique involves the key light to be placed at Lynn's eye level and 90 degrees to the side of her face.

The Broad lighting technique is the Rembrandt technique but with Lynn's face turned a bit off-center, so the broader side (turned towards the camera) is in the light. 

The Butterfly technique is named for the butterfly shaped shadow that is created under the nose of a subject by placing the main light source above and directly behind the camera.

Three Point lighting

This in class assignment focused on the three point lighting technique http://digitaltutorials.jrn.columbia.edu/?p=264. This lighting technique is used for interviews. Constance Maybin authenticallyelevated.blogspot.com and Jordan Beagle itsbeaglesbugle.blogspot.com are the featured models in these lighting shots.

This Shot is a wide shot of both Jordan (The interviewer) and Constance (The interviewee) with the back light, fill light and side light are on and illuminating them both.

This shot is of Constance with the key light shown and focusing on her illuminating her face.

This shot shows the side/fill light from a different angle on Constance and Jordan but focusing on more on Constance and lighting her face.

This shot is showing the backlight behind Constance

 Using the three point lighting method really does help with insuring the light during an interview looks great. It was great working with Connie and Jordan and taking pictures of them to show how the method works.