High-contrast light decryption Portrait.

Shooting a high pass, not the normal portrait of gradation of spacing is black and white portrait photography in an interesting attempt. It can pass using contrast defined, hard light, shaping out some striking and moving image. To get such a high contrast portraits, in addition to exposure and developer skills required on the shooting of lighting also has certain requirements. United States

Shooting a high pass, not the normal portrait of gradation of spacing is black and white portrait photography in an interesting attempt.

It can pass using contrast defined, hard light, shaping out some striking and moving image.

To get such a high contrast portraits, in addition to exposure and developer skills required on the shooting of lighting also has certain requirements.

United States photographers and j J · Mitchell · Hannum in the darkroom photography magazine in an article, a simple lighting method:

You can use the direct light or scattered light for illumination, generally with a light or two lamps as well.

For shooting convenience, it is best to use Spotlight, so that we can directly observe the luminous efficiency. Of course you can also use the Flash. In most cases, use only one lamp is enough. If absorbed, hair is black, you can use the second lights illuminate directly absorbed by hair or from its back lighting, to produce a lighter profile, making a distinction between the object and the background. In order to achieve the moving effect, you can try to use side light or a 45-degree angle of light for illumination is taken. Side light only light absorbed by half of the face, but 45 ° light you can illuminate the large half her face, and as the cheeks of the light source creates a triangular portion of the light.

This high contrast effect to dark, unlit background looks best c to allow images to better distinguish the background, you will be taken to head out check-point: backlighting silhouette portrait, in fact, can be regarded as a high-contrast portrait photography.

United Kingdom photographer M · Kipling pointed out that the backlight photo is being taken in carrying out the light source, the outline of the image. Usually photographic film experience, performance tone of tolerance is limited. By contrast, the human eye on tonal feeling is to much wider. This photograph, darker object to a lighter background against the way jump to sketch out however.

Shooting silhouettes against the, often used in the photo as photosource, but can also be based on the photographer's convenient or preferences as photosource with any light.

Kipling, believes that before sunrise or after sunset sky as background image is blurred photos photos. In order to be able to produce the film good backlighting silhouettes, photograph the brightest portion and darkest parts of the ratio is usually 50: 1. Especially when shooting with the slide should be so, because its narrower tolerance degree tones.