In our early lessons, we learned that effective graphic design consists of texts and images.
What makes a good image? Today, we'll look at how portraits are lit. Good portraits are an effective element of ads, of magazine covers and other forms of graphic design.
Here are five key examples of lighting faces that will be part of your future magazine projects.
I Split lighting -- Look at the human face and light it in a 50/50 split, with half of the face in shadow and half of the face well lit.
What makes a good image? Today, we'll look at how portraits are lit. Good portraits are an effective element of ads, of magazine covers and other forms of graphic design.
Here are five key examples of lighting faces that will be part of your future magazine projects.
I Split lighting -- Look at the human face and light it in a 50/50 split, with half of the face in shadow and half of the face well lit.
II. Broad lighting or full lighting -- you turn your subject's face 45 degrees to the left or right, making sure not to put their nose outside the frame of their face. (This is called "beaking.") The light fills up the broad or wide side of their face while the eye on the short side of the face is not visible:
III. Short lighting -- the opposite of broad lighting. You still pose your subjects at a 45 degree angle to the camera, but this time the wide side of the face is in shadow and the short side is visible. Again, you see the eye on the short side but not on the wide side:
IV. Butterfly lighting -- the most common type of lighting for women, this is the most glamorous. The light is placed high and directly in front of the subject, filling in the face, and producing shadows under the chin and a small butterfly shaped shadow under the nose:
V. Rembrandt Lighting -- named after the painter Rembrandt, who used this style lighting in his paintings. It brings the light in from one side at a 45 degree angle. It lights one side of the face evenly and produces two triangles of light on the opposite side of the face, a triangle of light under the subject's eye and a triangle of shadow off the nose to the far corner of the subject's mouth:
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
1. Open a Powerpoint presentation.
2. Using google images, find an example of each of the five styles of lighting. Create a slide for each of the styles, and give the definition for each style.
3. When you have completed the exercise, e-mail the project to me at: [email protected]
1. Open a Powerpoint presentation.
2. Using google images, find an example of each of the five styles of lighting. Create a slide for each of the styles, and give the definition for each style.
3. When you have completed the exercise, e-mail the project to me at: [email protected]