Fourth entry- Light and Lightings in Digital Photography and shooting techniques and tips

Hai everyone! Welcome to my fourth entry of my Visual Technology Production blog and today we are going to discuss on Light and Lightings in Digital Photography emphasizes on the sources and effects, natural and available lights as well as artificial and flash lightings. We also will be going to discuss on the shooting techniques and tips in order to have a good photographs with suitable themes and moods. This website article will guide us and providing us tips to have a beautiful photograph indeed. In this website, the author mainly discussed on the four common types of portrait lighting patterns namely: Split lighting Loop lighting Rembrandt lighting Butterfly lighting Split lighting Loop lighting Rembrandt lighting Butterfly lighting In the website itself, I love to experiment all types of portrait lighting patterns above especially on the Split lighting as it express emotions of the actor/actress themselves. It also provide mystery and suspense to the photograph itself thanks to the shadows created by the lighting in the studio. Some patterns such as broad patterns, high key patterns and paramount patterns also the examples of other portrait patterns that you guys can try on.  The direction of the light will affect how the shape and texture of your subject appears, while the colour and how soft or harsh the light is can totally change a shot’s appearance. There are three basic characteristics of light that determine how your shot will look: how harsh or soft it is, the direction and the colour. It’s easiest to tell the quality of the light by looking at the shadows, rather than the areas in the light. Harsh, direct light creates strong, well-defined shadows, while the shadows created by more diffuse lighting are much softer. The location of the shadows tells you where the light is coming from, as they appear on the opposite side to the light. . Natural VS Artificial light. What the difference? Light falls into two broad categories: natural and artificial. Both categories include subsets of light that have different properties from one another. For example, natural light is usually produced by the sun, but natural light can also come from flames such as a candle or even a forest fire. Moonlight is also a form of natural light. But even though all these types of light come from natural sources, they have vastly different characteristics. Candle light, for example, will produce light with an orange cast while the mid-day sun produces light that is much bluer. Even the properties of sunlight can be vastly different during one time of the day than during another: morning sunlight, for example, is diffuse and produces softer shadows, while the sun at noon is direct and produces darker shadows. Almost everyone who owns a camera has heard the terms “hard light” and “soft light.” The meanings of these terms are fairly self-explanatory, but in a nutshell: hard light creates hard shadows, and soft light creates soft shadows. Hard light is caused by a small, directional light source such as the sun. Soft light, on the other hand, comes from a large or filtered light source. On a cloudy day, that hard light source known as the sun is filtered by the clouds, which produces soft light. Reflected light is also soft, as long as it is reflected from a large surface such as a wall or one of your portable reflectors. Some techniques can be used in capturing beautiful photographs by using natural and artificial lighting and this website will show some techniques regarding on the use of the lightings that had been mentioned earlier.  What makes a striking photo? Often, it's merely ordinary things composed in an ordinary manner. That's because they always tend to have a single theme or idea, and because clutter is kept to a minimum. They are simple, true, and sincere. Today we're looking at the elements of design (line, shape, form, texture, color etc) that can turn a simple subject into a striking photo. Successful photos rely on order, theme and emotions and the main elements that bring and emphasize order in a composition are: line, shape, form, texture, pattern, and color. Every photograph, intentionally or not, contains one or more of these element, which are known as the elements of design. This website definitely provides us to apply six elements in designing or creating a striking photograph for the final product.  Different themes with different moods and emotions projected by the actor/actress So far, we had learned lots of things today especially on the natural and artificial lightings and their effects. We also covered the “hard” light and “soft” light that were highly influenced the exposure of colours of a photo. Last but not least, we also discussed on the themes, emotions and moods in digital photography and learned on identifying different types of emotions respectively. For the next entry, we are going to cover the elements of studio photography emphasizing on the instruments and situations in studio photography. Can’t wait for the  next entry and be sure to keep updating ya, guys! Fighting!