Using Tungsten Light to Photograph Model

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Hi, again. Rob Mitchell for Expert Village. Today, we're moving into the studio and we're going to actually do a demonstration with lighting. We're going to start off with tungsten lights, like we learned before all about the tungsten light. We're using the tungsten light because it's going to let you see exactly what light you're getting on the model. Nicole is going to be helping us today and sitting in as our model. The first light that we're going to demonstrate is your key light which is your main light, representing sunlight. It should be placed about forty five degrees from your model off to the side. You can do either side, whichever is more comfortable and about forty five degrees up, up above the model. What this does is it's illuminating one side of her face, but we're also getting a very special triangle of light which comes over on the other side of the face. To demonstrate that, I have to kill the studio lights here. You'll be able to see better what's happening. As we zoom in a little closer on Nicole so you can see exactly the effect that the light is having. It is coming from forty degrees to the right and forty five degrees high. We've got beautiful illumination on this side of here face and see what's happening here, you're getting a little classic triangle of light here on the other side of the face, on the dark side of the face. If you're watching movies at all, you'll see this all the time in the films, especially the old films. This was a classic Hollywood lighting that happened. When you're exposing for a picture like this, I always say expose for the highlights. Let the shadows take care of themselves. We're going to take a shot right now so you can see exactly what this looks like. Perfect, good. We're going to show just a couple of other places that you can put your key light. It needn't always be off to the side. I'm just going to hold it for this demonstration. You can watch Nicole's face. There is another lighting cord here which is called butterfly lighting. As you can see a little bit better now, the light is directly in front of Nicole and pointing down on her. It almost looks like the interview lights that they use when they're grilling you at the police station. However, what we would do is we would add reflectors to soften these shadows, but you can see what happens when you use one light, straight on your subject, how harsh the shadows are underneath the chin. You can see that little bit of shadow underneath the nose, that's why it's called butterfly lighting. With one single light like this, the shadows are very harsh. Next we're going to show how to soften these shadows.

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