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Image of three-point lighting from Dummies.com How to Use Three-Point Lighting
Goal
- Explore lighting for 3 different more formal photos
- Learn to use the photo studio, product studio and use a reflector
- Learn three point lighting
Standards, Terms, and Concepts
- Demonstrate and explain high key
- Demonstrate and explain low key
- Demonstrate and explain three point lighting
- Demonstrate and explain key light
- Demonstrate and explain fill light
- Demonstrate and explain bounce light
- Demonstrate and explain back or kicker light
Product
- Blog post with embedded images from Flickr
Examples
Steps
- Take4 studio pictures:
- Four in the portrait studio
- Front
- Profile
- Straight with squinch, forehead forward, chin down, jaw out
- Turned with squinch, front shoulder down, chin down, jaw out with ear toward the camera
- One in the product studio
- One outside with a reflector
- One outside without a reflector (the same person and setup from the reflector picture to show what it looks like without the extra light)
- Take pictures in teams of three at each station
- Upload pictures to your Flickr account
- Embed your images in a blog post titled, Studio Lighting Project
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