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01/28/2006 04:34:01 PM · #1 |
Im trying to figure this out but something is escaping me. I want to take a portrait on a white background but have the features on the face come out very white. Kind of in the spirit of these shots
   
im not sure how to really achieve this effect without blowing out the white or loosing the details. Any suggestions
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01/28/2006 04:38:51 PM · #2 |
This is called high key photography. You will need lots of light, more than likely from strobes. You need to light the background separately from your subject so that the background is blown out but your subject isn't, then adjust the levels, contrast, etc in photoshop Alternatively, you could do a lot of work in photoshop if you didn't have studio lights. Hope that helps.
June
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01/28/2006 04:41:44 PM · #3 |
| But nothing should really be blown out in hi key photos, there still has to be color information even in the highlights. |
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01/28/2006 05:07:48 PM · #4 |
hmmm interesting. I dont have a lot of light to work with, I have my 1 light that ive been using (which is just a lap with a hood i picked up at the hardware store) and natural light. I guess i can try to use natural light to hit the subject and the lamp on the background ... maybe
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01/28/2006 05:39:10 PM · #5 |
| Generally, I think you'd need full sunlight or strobes to create this effect really, maybe high-wattage bulbs or shoplights would do.. You could just elongate your exposure, but that might cause more blurring because of subject movement (breathing even) than you really want. |
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01/28/2006 05:42:11 PM · #6 |
Mine was a complete fluke! especially it was in the outdoors where you can't really control the light. i lucked out ;)
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01/28/2006 06:52:05 PM · #7 |
Only the first and second shots shown here are high-key. High-key is low contrast with most of the data in the upper range of the histogram. Note: high-key does not mean blown highlights.
The third and fourth shots are high contrast shots, not high-key.
To answer the original post, you will need LOTS of light on the background. As for the subject, you will tend to light him/her/it pretty much the same as you would any other portrait.
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01/28/2006 07:44:09 PM · #8 |
I thought we had a high-key "how'd they do that" in the learn section.
Maybe someone could enlighten us with one.
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