High Key Photos

High Key Practice

I have included some pictures here from my high key practice shoot, high key lighting is a harsh form of lighting and usually blows most of the harsh shadows in an image. High key lighting usually gives a light hearted tone and is used a lot in beauty photography. High key lighting can be done with artificial or natural light.

We experimented with using different heights on the lights, and also by using reflectors in different places to try and get different looks. Our first few images were slightly over exposed. We has places the light pretty low and the camera was also too low, this made it so there was too much direct light going directly onto the face, and also having the camera too low was slightly unflattering, the face looked larger as you can see below. All of these photos are very overexposed too.

In this photo the sync lead was not attached to the light, so the photo came out very dark, this is something you need to make sure works as we had no natural lights in our studio.

I have included this picture to show bad positioning, the camera is far too low for the model, when shooting the camera needs to be at eye level with the model to get the best shot, this image is also a little bit over exposed as the face looks too washed out.

These images are the best ones that we took on the day, I think we have got the right lighting, positioning and all the photographs are in focus. The light from the top is really flattering and seems to wash away all the imperfections on the skin and makes it look flawless, the colours in these pictures also look very rich so this is what I will be using for my colour beauty shots.