Experimenting with Lighting

Experimenting with lighting:

Using a Reflector:



In this clip, it shows us experimenting with the reflector,  a circular frame of reflective material that is used to illuminate specific areas by reflecting light from a specific light source. This is used to illuminate any areas that wouldn't normally be illuminated by the current lighting set up. It's the lighting equivalent of filling in the gaps.


High Key Lighting:



In this clip, this lighting setup makes sure there are no dark areas in the shot as all the lights in the studios are being utilised.




Low key Lighting:



Butterfly:



This was a second attempt of sorts, of the Rembrandt lighting technique. We wanted to fully establish the "butterfly" underneath the nose that wasn't so evident in the Rembrandt clip. In this clip it still isn't perfectly established however it is much clearer than the previous clip.


Edge Lighting:



Edge lighting consists of the subject being illuminated by the singular light source, only on the one side, leaving the other half of the subject in a lower key lighting creating a very distinctive contrast. In this case half of my face has a shadow cast upon it with the other half completely illuminated. This was achieved through a very simple set up of  singular light being shone on one side of my face.

Rembrant:



In this lighting set up, it is most commonly identified by a shadow that is cast underneath the nose of the subject which resembles a butterfly in flight. It can also be identified by a emmitence of light in the shape of  triangle that appears on the right side of the subjects face. As shown in the following images:

The triangle of light has been achieved on the subject however the butterfly was proven hard to establish. It took a lot of experimentation with different angles with the Key light in order to achieve satisfying results. This showed us that this particular lighting set up isn't the easy to set up on the first attempt but after a few more attempts then the "butterfly" will become more apparent.


3 Point:



The 3-point lighting set up is used to fully illuminate the subject, in this case it was used to fully illuminate my face. It was defiantly one of the easiest set ups despite the fact that it consists of three lights. These are the Key light, the Fill Light and the Back Light, as shown in the following image:

Experimental:







Image Sources: 

1.    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/3_point_lighting.svg/2000px-3_point_lighting.svg.png