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3 Point Lighting
It doesn’t matter if you are a professional photographer or an amateur shooting with a borrowed Canon digital camera, unless you have light, no one will see your pictures. Lighting the scene is the key to a successful photo. You may be shooting at sunrise, sunset or in your family room, but the proper lighting is the necessary component of a successful shot. In the first two examples, nature provides the light. In the third situation, you must provide the light in order to take a picture.
There are facts a photographer needs to realize about lighting:
Incandescent light will make objects seem redder than they really are.
Florescent lights will make objects appear more green than they are.
The easiest way to avoid the red tint and the green hue is to use a flash to light everything evenly. Flash is not the end all solution. You are limited by the range of the flash. The best way to light a scene is to use what is called 3 point lighting. Three point lighting involves 3 lights.
Key Light… Lights the subject
Fill Light…..Fills the scene, eliminating the shadows.
Back Light…Placed behind the subject and above the level of the camera. It provides a slight glow around the subject.
I found a video on YouTube that explains 3 point lighting
Video blogging is kind of cool but i think it is more time consuming than regular text based blogs. i already have at least 1 video blog and 2 regular blogs.
February 18th, 2010 at 1:45 am