Today’s Warm Up: Beginners Guide to Shooting Low Key Lighting

https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-shooting-low-key–photo-3427

After reading the above tutorial, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

Next week’s photo challenge with Contrast with Low Key Lighting. What’s one way to get a low key lighting image? What is Chiaroscuro and how does it fit into low key images? What kind of ISO do you want to do with a low key image? Do we have all the things we need to shoot a low key image here at HHS? What equipment would you need to get this look at home?

3 Replies to “Today’s Warm Up: Beginners Guide to Shooting Low Key Lighting”

  1. One way of doing low key lighting is by messing with the exposure on your camera and keeping the ISO around 100-200. Going out at shooting at night is a great way to get the particular lighting you could use with this technique. Chiaroscuro is a technique that uses dramatic contrast to add depth to a painting. If you see it on a painting, it looks like low key lighting. The ISO you want to use needs to be below 200. Equipment wise, we do have everything we need. To get this at home, I would need to do a two door approach by having my subject in a dark room, and the lighting in another room. It’s better if the rooms have doors on them, because the door helps filter out the light. You should also have a reflector, so something like white paper works.

  2. Next week’s photo challenge with Contrast with Low Key Lighting. What’s one way to get a low key lighting image? What is Chiaroscuro and how does it fit into low key images? What kind of ISO do you want to do with a low key image? Do we have all the things we need to shoot a low key image here at HHS? What equipment would you need to get this look at home?

    To get a low key lighting image, you could start in a dark room and have one light or flash faced toward the subject. Chiaroscuro is a technique painters used a long time ago to create a dramatic feel. It means light and dark. It fits in with low key images because it creates the same effect low key lighting does. You need a lower ISO to do a low key image. Yes, we have everything we need. To get this look at home, I would need a black backdrop. I already have a light and reflectors.

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