From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Studio Portraiture
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Middle-tone gray critique
From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Studio Portraiture
Middle-tone gray critique
So you've seen how we bleach a background, how we get that beautiful dropout white as we call it. But we don't only want that. We want to get more than that out of a shoot and one of the devices we use is a very elementary one. I wanted you to see this. We get this look and it's done in a very simple way and in a very deliberate way, and you keep the flow going. People don't even know that any change has been made and we could change the background paper, yes, and all that sort of thing, but we don't want to take the time because we want to keep the momentum. We want to keep the spirit of the subject going and moving. What do we do? We'll switch off the background lights. These two lights that have been bleaching the background are turned off. So there's no light on them ,but now what's happened is that background is only being illuminated from these lights up here, our key lights, our key and our fill. There is no other light in the room and that gives you that grey look, and that's…
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