| Portrait photography lighting set up is nothing fancy. | | | | photography is to relieve the shadows so that the |
| It is just the solid portrait lighting that is favorable to | | | | idea you're attempting to portray in your photo is |
| the business community. There are lots of | | | | achieved. The fill light lightens the shadows. The |
| corporations and companies that want business | | | | darker the shadows are, the more dramatic the shot. |
| photography portraits for brochures and advertising | | | | Depending on the subject and the background in |
| purposes and this is the perfect portrait photography | | | | your portrait photo, the intensity of the background |
| lighting set-up for the portrait photographer that | | | | may need to be either brighter or darker than the |
| needs to get something nice and get it fast. Portrait | | | | last time you used it. It should all depend on the |
| photography lighting is not a bunch of complicated | | | | individual situation in each individual portrait. If the |
| scientific principles. Once you get a system that | | | | background is dark and the subject is a family |
| works for you, you'll only need to modify it a little for | | | | portrait, maybe the background light needs to be |
| each individual, so as you experiment, make sure you | | | | pumped up a bit. Maybe you want the subject to |
| take good notes so that you can reproduce your | | | | blend into the background for some reason. Then in |
| portrait lighting set up at a moment's notice. | | | | that case, maybe the background light isn't needed |
| Conveying information and giving shape are the two | | | | at all. It will all depend on your vision. |
| main purposes. In portrait photography the brightness | | | | The purpose of hair-light photography is to separate |
| of background matters. In portrait photography, if | | | | the subject from the background and supplementing |
| the background is near the subject, it's difficult to | | | | a little more dimension to the shot. A light placed |
| light separately. The same light that hits the subject, | | | | from above and slightly behind will give roundness to |
| also hits the background. That's why it is well and | | | | the shoulders and lightens the upper edge of the |
| good to have ten to fifteen feet between the | | | | subject. Suppose if the subject is dark and the |
| subject and the background. That kind of distance | | | | photographer wishes to keep the background dark |
| allows the background to fall-off. You can also the | | | | too, then this light tends to brighten just the hair and |
| control the focus of the background by having the | | | | shoulders separating and brightening in the right |
| most possible distance. | | | | proportion. If the hair light is too forward then it will |
| The purpose of the background light in portrait | | | | highlight the nose than brightening the hair alone. |