Dark background. Create an image where the figure feels like it is emerging from the dark, using focused lighting to create strategic highlights to delineate forms.
Consider and try:
- Profile, lit with single light. Try grid, diffused grid, softbox. Profile often work better with a slightly lowered camera position (shooting at slight angle up), to separate head from shoulders
- Front, broad or short with a grid spot. Also try with other light sources
- Front, broad, short or profile with right lighting and/or kickers
- Try some other arrangements you invent....
High Key Lighting
Light or blown-out background. Usually soft rendering of skin, uniform tones, in a bright, airy scene. Many fashion is shot this way.
Consider and try:
- "beauty" or "butterfly" lighting. (Why is it called butterfly?) Try a single softbox placed above the camera, with a reflector below. Essentially, the diagram on pages 220 & 221. Also try twin umbrellas, forming a "wall of light"
Try variations, and then refine the best for one high key, and one low key, portfolio image.
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