WEEK 6 : THREE POINT LIGHTING

Key, Fill, and Back Lights

The Key Light – This is the main light used on your subject.
The Fill Light – The purpose of this light is to fill in the shadows created by the key light, preventing them from getting too dark.
The Back Light – This is used to separate the subject from the background.

One of the oldest lighting techniques in the book is called “Three Point Lighting”. It is vastly used in studio photography and by snobby fashion photographers. It is also a very good basis for any portrait photograph. In this technique you use three lights:

The first light is a key light. Usually this is the strongest light and this light sets the lighting of the scene.

The second light is called a fill light, this light helps fill the shadows that the main light casts.

The last light is called a backlight (because it comes from the back), and is used to create a contour and separation. It is common to use a snoot or a gridspot on the backlight to avoid a spill.

In our exercise today we used the

key light, fill light , back light ( snoot light )

The snoot light was placed to the right and at the back which provide a nice light on the back of the models hair.
We had lights placed on our ladies and away we went taking our shots. The key light is the strongest light.

The fill light fills in the shadows.

The backlight is brighter than the key light. This light separates the subject from the background.