From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light
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Split light, skipping, and intense
From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light
Split light, skipping, and intense
- Have you ever wondered how they make those really intense-looking athlete portraits, where there's light just glinting off the edges of things, and maybe there's like, sweat on somebody's skin and it looks just sparkling, and the tone of their muscles looks really great? Well this is how they do it. It's just kind of a split light and a rim light, and simply moving your camera position between the two will give you that really intense kind of gritty look. To create this kind of portrait, you should put the light on the side of your subject, and lower than you would for a head shot. You know, we don't need it to be up above and shining in, we want it to be coming straight across. Bring your light very close to your subject so that it's very contrasty, and also bring your lens in close to your subject, so that it feels like it's a very intimate picture. You can photograph them doing movements and doing poses of their intense workouts. It works great on dancers or boxers or anybody…
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Lighting and posting for what the portrait should say1m 22s
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Clam shell headshot1m 15s
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Loop or Rembrandt1m 29s
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Dark background and deep contrast1m 54s
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Full length or three quarters1m 10s
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Split light, skipping, and intense1m 6s
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Extreme angle1m 30s
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Reflector as the front light49s
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Reflector as the back light1m
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Silhouette1m 6s
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Second curtain sync3m 23s
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