Lighting Positions

Three- Pint Lighting

• 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.

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Silhouette 

• outline subject
• place light behind the subject

Split Light

• single light source placed 90 degrees offset from the subject and a bit higher than eye level, 
• Lighting one half of the face, and leaving the other in shadow

Loop Lighting 

• Loop lighting is made by creating a small shadow of the subjects noses on their cheeks. 
• To create loop lighting, the light source must be slightly higher than eye level and about 30-45 degrees from the camera 

Broad Lighting 

• Broad lighting is when the subject’s face is slightly turned away from centre, and the side of the face which is toward the camera (is broader) is in the light. 
• used for “high key” portraits
• makes a person’s face look broader or wider

Short Light

• short lighting puts the side turned towards the camera (that which appears larger) in more shadow.
• used for low key, or darker portraits
• the face is turned towards the light source this time

Rembrant Lighting

• identified by the triangle of light on the cheek
• more dramatic, so like split lighting it creates more mood and a darker feel to your image

Butterfly Light

• butterfly shaped shadow that is created under the nose by placing the main light source above and directly behind the camera. 
• shooting underneath the light source
• glamour style shots and to create shadows under the cheeks and chin.

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Final Project Proposal

(Photo of my father and his brothers that I found)

For my final project I really wanted to get into my family's roots, especially my parents. All through out my childhood my parents never had pictures of themselves growing up around the house, besides the one baby picture displayed on the mantel. My father recently found a bunch of color negatives from the late 1950's and I was extremely excited to get into them to get a better understanding of how he grew up. Through out the semester I have been scanning all the photographs in that he found and they are quite compelling, due to the time difference and subject matter. Over Thanksgiving break I am going to go through my mothers photographs, from the 1970's, and choose ones that juxtapose my fathers. She grew up in a lower middle class family in the Netherlands and he grew up extremely privileged in Greenwich, Connecticut. I want to explore how these two completely different people, from different backgrounds ended up together.
I will be printing these photographs with the Gum printing process because I wanted to make sure that the colors of the photographs are still portrayed. I was lucky that my fathers negatives were in color and I feel that if I were to print them without the color it would take away from the power of the images. There were a surprising amount of images with extraordinary colors that I wanted to take advantage of. A challenge that I might have to face is that a lot of the photographs that I am taking from are from different processes: color slides, color 35mm film and my mother has printed out color photographs. I want to make the photographs appear to be from the same medium or else I feel they won't hold up as a collection as well.
This is a concept that I believe I will be adding onto for years to come, maybe expanding to my grandparents in the future, but I am excited to get the idea started.