High Key And Low Key And Lighting Attachments

These are a few examples of high key lighting, this gives a very bright and white effect to your images. It also makes everything appear very clean and crisp, you get every part of your object with no shadows. I think this is a good technique for very clean bright photograph, it is good for positive, happy images, or if you want some features to stand out more then others you make make them darker and have a light and pale background. 

These are examples of  low key lightning. They are a lot more suttle and gentile to look at. They make the skin appear really smooth and clear, this kind of lighting is good for very dark photos, when you want that dark feeling of fear, scary and different emotions. I also think this is good when you want to focus on different things and make the jump out to your viewer so they don't get distracted. 

Beauty dishes are a great tool for any photographer; the light produced is harder than a softbox but softer than an umbrella. You can also add different modifiers to change how they work. The light can be made harder when you use a grid, which you’ll see below, helping to add to the versatility of the modifier.

Shooting in the studio has many benefits and having total control over your lighting is one of them. You can let your imagination run wild and visualise endless ways to shoot your subject. That’s the fascination for me, using any number of different accessories to create subtle effects and mood changes. To do this – to create those different moods – needs a type of accessory that will control the light and give very small, controllable pools that we can use like tiny brush strokes.

Soft light
Soft light is light that creates shadows with a gradual transition from light to dark. There are no hard shadow lines. It is created from a scattered or diffused light source. Soft light is found where the lighting is indirect or where it passes through a diffuser, clouds or some other medium which scatters the light. Diffused light can be light that has bounced off one or more surfaces before it hits a photographic target.

Hard light
Hard light creates shadows with a sharp edge. There is a negligible transition from light to dark. Hard light is created by strongly focussed light travelling from a small (or relatively small), single-point light source like the Sun, a focussed beam of light, or an undiffused light bulb).

Standard reflectors are your everyday reflector for the studio flash head. They’re usually made of metal (with a silver matte interior finish, a polished silver finish or a granular metallic finish), and they direct the light output in a 90 to 120-degree beam. A standard reflector is the typical light/reflector set-up for shining the light into bounce cards, through diffusion, and grids or cutters. One thing to know about standard reflectors is that the wider they are, the softer the light you get from the lamp unit. Additionally, the shape and interior finish can affect “softness” of the light. While standard reflectors seem very basic in their usage, they should become a staple in your studio lighting set-ups.

Soft boxes work by confining the light from a lamp into a closed chamber and releasing it through at least one layer of diffusion material. As the light passes through the translucent fabric it scatters, producing a very even and soft result.Uses for the soft box fall predominantly into two categories: Key Light, as the principle light source, and Fill Light, as a secondary light to reduce contrast. Although any style of light source can be used for key or fill applications, the use of a harsh light for fill renders a poor result. Soft boxes, on the other hand, are perfect for fill light because they don’t cast harsh shadows.