Tuesday 9 October 2012

Lights for Wedding Photography

By Cooper V. Kochan


Lighting is an important element for wedding photography. Unlike most other areas of professional photography, weddings require all types of lighting, all on the same day, including window light, outdoor lighting, bounce lighting, and also multiple electronic lighting. Each kind of light has its own disadvantages but additionally offers opportunities for creative work. In order to recognize fine lighting, examine the works of the master painters. Notice how the artists were conscious about lighting and light direction; shadows fall as they would in a naturally lit landscape. They fully understood the difficulty in working to make a two-dimensional. Progressively, electronic flash equipment, having its automatic thyristor circuitry, has been used as the good way to photograph a wedding. Some photographers boast that they may shoot an entire job at f/8, enabling the flash unit to do the job. Unfortunately, this type of lighting is absolutely apparent as well as unappealing.

The two broad types of lighting mentioned here are: existing light and electronic flash. Existing light includes natural light and also the light sources encountered, such as lamps or even chandeliers. Electronic flash or even strobe lighting includes single and multiple lighting configurations, and umbrella and the various other bounced lighting.

Existing light. Taking photos in existing light that are consistently well exposed isn't a very simple task. Because of the great color variation in between a bride's white gown along with a groom's black tux, cameras with built-in light meters will not suffice and are rarely found in wedding photography. A reliable means of calculating light is crucial. There are two types of exposure meters available: those that measure incident light, and the ones that measure reflected light. An incident light meter measures the quantity of light which falls onto a white dome that collects the light. Even lighting condition including shade, the reading will usually give a correct exposure.

Reflected-light meter measures the intensity of light coming from the subject. Critical users of light meters tend to prefer this type. The meter is actually pointed toward the subject from the camera position or perhaps in the line from the camera toward the subject.

To photograph with window light, put the subject close to the window and also looking toward it. Direct sunlight produces harsh shadows and highly contrasting highlights plus shadow areas and unless some form of fill light is used, the shadow side of the face could have insufficient illumination. Fortunately, more diffuse shaded light is usually accessible.




About the Author:



No comments: