Monday, 4 February 2008

Retro Skunk Lighting in Lightroom


Wow, had an absolute blast in Melbourne on an Advanced Studio Lighting Course. Got to know some top Landscape, Fashion, Architecture, and Food Photographers. We had ten people on the course and learnt all about different lighting techniques. We were also blessed with a fantastic fashion model. We were spoilt really, very little direction was given to Clarisa as she naturally moved into a different pose each time the shutter was released. I wanted to try out Skunk lighting which involves two key lights camera left and right 90 degrees to the models face, plus a fill light above the camera. You may be able to see a darkish line down the middle of Clarisa's face showing fall off of the light. This was intentional and known as skunk lighting. I did a little LR on this image which involved increasing the contrast using the tone curve and bumping the vibrance up a little, I then moved the image to PS for some final sharpening effects. Job done!

No comments: