studio photography notes

We learnt how to proffesionally use lighting for a photography studio. By not shining the light from a Red Head dirrectly at a subject and letting the light deflect of a surface the light becomes less harsh. Using a daylight filter (a blue gel) also helps to lessen the harshness of the light whilst giving a more natural looking light source. An infill light is used like a minature spotlight and helps cancell out shadowing on the subject, another way to cancel shadowing is to place a light source behind the subject and two in front of the subject to cancel out all shadowing (three point lighting). By using a deflector disk it bounces the light of it and into the subjet less harshly and helps to cancel shadowing. A light defuser is used for the light to pass through it but lessen the intensity of the light source.