What lighting to use? Flashcards
What type of lighting is it when the shadowed side of face is closest to/facing camera?
Short Lighting
What type of lighting is great for making faces look longer and more slender?
Short lighting
What type of lighting will be good for longer faces?
Broad Lighting and butterfly setup.
Use this type of lighting if the subject has a facial feature they don’t want to show up in the photo—like one eye is bigger than the other, a scar, whatever.
Broad lighting. Put the area they don’t like in the shadow.
What type of lighting creates soft, shadowless lighting that is very flattering?
Broad lighting
What type of lighting is shone on the part of the face furthest from the camera?
Short
What type of lighting is it when the light is hitting the part of the face closest to camera?
Broad
What type of lighting is bad for chubby faces?
Broad lighting w butterfly set up
What type of lighting is bad for wrinkles?
Broad
What type of light is good for/reduces wrinkles?
Short
What type of lighting splits the face exactly into equal halves with one side being in the light, and the other in shadow?
Split lighting
What type of lighting tends to be a more masculine pattern and as such is usually more appropriate or applicable on men than it is for women?
Split lighting
What type of lighting do you put the light source 90 degrees to the left or right of the subject?
Split lighting.
What is split lighting?
Light that splits the face exactly into equal halves with one side being in the light, and the other in shadow. Place light source 90 degrees to camera
What type of lighting is produced by placing the main light above the face/eye level and somewhat to the right or left of the of the direction in which the face is pointing - depending on persons face for broad or short lighting version?
Loop lighting
- short lighting for wider faces - makes it look thinner
- broad lighting for flattering thinner faces & softer shadows
what type of lighting creates a shadow from the nose and from the cheek?
Loop lighting - the shadow of the nose and that of the cheek do NOT touch.
What type of light is known as glamour lighting, paramount lighting, or beauty lighting?
Butterfly lighting or clamshell lighting
What type of lighting produces a symmetrical, v shaped shadow produced just beneath the nose.?
Butterfly or clamshell lighting
What type of lighting consists of a single light pointed directly at the subjects nose, and raised higher than eyes, enough to create a downward shadow on the subject (look for v shadow below the nose).
Butterfly or clamshell
What should you add if your using butterfly lighting?
A reflector on models lap tilted downward or fill flash tilted up from below, to put catchlights back into the eyes.
What type of lighting pattern is great for portraits of older individuals (helps them look younger)
Butterfly or clamshell
