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The following is the 3 steps you should follow the light, if you are from now on it as a standard procedure to implement it, so you need not be too nervous. This "trilogy" is the basic lighting studio, it almost every time you can ensure the correct lighting during the training, not only so, but also some years later. The first step: place the main light and use the floodlight as the main light source. The main light is often referred to as a key light, and its position depends on the effect you are looking for. But generally it is placed on the main side of the body at 45 degrees angle, and its horizontal position is usually two or three feet higher than the camera, the main lamp lighting effect as shown in figure 11.9. Place the main light on the right side of the main body and make it 45 degrees to the main body. This is only a possible light position. Different lighting arrangements will have different effects. The main light position once selected, the basic tone photos will be determined and controlled. The second step: add auxiliary lights, the main light can cast a deep shadow, the role of auxiliary lights is to add some shadow shading, so that the details of the shadow highlighted. However, we must not use power greater than or equal to the main lights auxiliary lights, so as not to produce another shadow with the main lights against each other shadow. The main light should be dominant, it determines the basic tone of shadow - the high light area, so the auxiliary lamp intensity must be weaker than the main lamp. One reason for adding auxiliary lights is that shadows usually look darker in the picture than seen with the naked eye. The auxiliary lights make the final picture look more natural.
As mentioned earlier, we do not want to create a new set of shadows because of the use of the auxiliary light. But how to avoid such a situation? When we put a lamp directly near the lens, the light will illuminate the main body directly, thus reducing the contrast and depth of the shadow at the front of the main body. Visible, we should put the auxiliary lights as close as possible to the camera. The use of auxiliary lights alone produces shade free effects. As shown in Figure 11.10, only the effect of auxiliary light is used. When placing auxiliary lights, make sure that the camera's shadow is not projected into the picture. Make the light higher than the camera, or make it on the camera's side. If you put the light next to the camera, then its position should be opposite to the main light. The power of the auxiliary light should be lower than the main light so that it does not cancel out the shadow made by the main lamp. Specific practices are as follows: 1. use a lower power bulb. For example: if the main light power is 500 watts, then you can use 250 Watt light bulb as auxiliary light. 2. auxiliary light should be away from the main body. You can determine the location of the auxiliary light according to the different effects you want to create. The method is to move the auxiliary light slowly back, while observing the effect it projects on the shape under the main light, and then select the position you are most satisfied with. Remember, the shadow in the picture is darker than what you see directly with the naked eye. 3. place a diffuse screen or other function that has the same function in front of the auxiliary light (if you're using a diffuser screen, such as a handkerchief, make sure it doesn't cause fire).
Auxiliary light should be much weaker than the main light? It all depends on the effect you want. If you need almost no shadow and contrast effects, you can use the auxiliary light with the main light intensity. On the other hand, if you want to take a high contrast photograph with a deeper shadow, you should use a weak auxiliary light, or simply use the auxiliary light. In most cases, you will pursue the natural effect. For this reason, you might as well start with the 1/3 auxiliary light that uses the main power light. Figure 11.11 is an example. The third step: add the background light, and finally you can add another floodlight or spotlight to illuminate the background behind the main body, so that the subject is separated from the background. It is up to you to decide which point of the background light should be directed back to the main body. It can illuminate the whole background and optionally illuminate a small area of the background. Placed in the background light, to move around and try to use two kinds of lamp floodlights and spotlights, different tone and effect at the same time oexamine different background light generated. Once you have mastered these three step lighting method, you can deal with the general including photography, portrait photography and family studio shooting. So, when shooting, is it necessary to use the three main lights, auxiliary lights and background lights? Not always。 But you might as well put each step lighting in my mind, consider what want to get shot. Experiments with each of them one by one, to transform the different lights, in order to ultimately determine can produce what you think is the best lighting scheme.
