HIGH KEY
NOTES:
In my high key photo shoot, I used a white sheet to cover the floor and background, trying to avoid folds and as many creases as possible, I then used 4 large spotlights, and two were pointed from either side at the background to reduce the shadows shown. The other two lights were aimed at the ceiling so that they could be reflected back down onto the model.
I positioned the model close to the lights to ensure that the camera focused on them and that the background was over-exposed to hide the creases in the sheets and to give a smooth, professional outcome. This type of photography is used in advertising as it makes the colours very vibrant and has little or no background so the focus is on the product.
For this, I wanted a large aperture to pick up lots of light; this meant I used a low F/Stop value. My first high key shoot went well; I experimented with the use of props and found that these settings and this lighting emphasized the decoration and colours of the objects. However, If I was to re-do my high key shoot, I would position my model even closer to the light to make them the sole focus of my photo as I found that in some of my pictures, the camera was focused on the sheet as well as the person which meant the creases and faults of the back sheet were visible and a change of levels in Photoshop was needed to correct this.
The photograph below shows my set up for this photo shoot.
In my high key photo shoot, I used a white sheet to cover the floor and background, trying to avoid folds and as many creases as possible, I then used 4 large spotlights, and two were pointed from either side at the background to reduce the shadows shown. The other two lights were aimed at the ceiling so that they could be reflected back down onto the model.
I positioned the model close to the lights to ensure that the camera focused on them and that the background was over-exposed to hide the creases in the sheets and to give a smooth, professional outcome. This type of photography is used in advertising as it makes the colours very vibrant and has little or no background so the focus is on the product.
For this, I wanted a large aperture to pick up lots of light; this meant I used a low F/Stop value. My first high key shoot went well; I experimented with the use of props and found that these settings and this lighting emphasized the decoration and colours of the objects. However, If I was to re-do my high key shoot, I would position my model even closer to the light to make them the sole focus of my photo as I found that in some of my pictures, the camera was focused on the sheet as well as the person which meant the creases and faults of the back sheet were visible and a change of levels in Photoshop was needed to correct this.
The photograph below shows my set up for this photo shoot.