Three steps to learn children's photography lighting skills

Photography is the process of playing games with light. It is equally important to shoot the baby 100 days and use it up. Take a hundred sunshine shots for your baby at home, and your parents are your baby's photographers. How to use light to shoot a wonderful hundred sunshine for your baby?

1. Type of lamp

Forward light and side light: these are two basic lights in portrait photography; Divergent light means that the light source illuminates the part of the face facing the camera, and side light means that the light source illuminates the part of the eyelid facing the camera.

2. how to use it up? Shun light is used less than side light because it flattens the facial contour and does not emphasize the facial structure; Side light can emphasize the contour of the face, and can selectively narrow or widen the face with light. When using weak auxiliary light, the side light will create a bright light and shadow effect, with bright highlights and heavy shadows.

3. Basic light distribution mode

Although there are five fixed lighting modes in traditional portrait photography (Paramount, Ring, Rembrandt, Splint and ID), it is difficult to use them in children's photography because they all advocate Ming Rui and soft light. When you use a large scattering light source (this light source is usually a common type of Wang Guang in children's photography), the effect of these light distribution modes is not obvious, because the edge of the shadow looks too soft.

Remember this important lighting principle: the main light must be brighter than the auxiliary light. Auxiliary light is very useful in reducing the shadows that are not illuminated, but more importantly, the main light. The main light is often placed on one side in front of the child and produces a shadow on the other side of the child's face; Raising or lowering the main light and moving it to one side of the main body will produce different effects. The main light only illuminates the highlights of the face.