Fine art portrait set up of lighting

This a photograph of the set up that i used for the short lighting method, which leaves a short shadow underneath the nose and under the chin, as opposed to the butterfly/Rembrandt lighting method. I used a Bowens light set up i.e the brolley which is the key light using the flash, which bounces of the silver reflector thus causing the shadow under the nose because the key light is both higher than the subject and in front of the subject. I found that this set up was difficult to set up in order to gain the right shadow and definition as there was a lot of light moving around but i feel that i did in the end master it to a certain extent. All the images were taken using a Nikon D700, with 85mm portraite lens.

Fine art Portarit research

Rembrandt portrait lighting is a name given to the lighting effect that the old masters used to use for the lighting effects in many of his paintings. It's basically short lighting where the shadow from the nose connects with the shadow on the side of the face, thus creating a triangle of light on the short side of the face. If nose and shadow does not connect with the cheek it's not considered to be rembrandt lighting, just short lighting.
Alot of fine art images are finished in black and white it could be suggessted that the final images portray the mood better in black and white than they do in colour.
http://www.professionalphotography101.com/portrait_lighting_names.html/

Fine art emotions of the human condition

This is another portrait image from Patrick Demarchelier, although it is different to those of Robin Williams I wanted to include as it I feel that this image is very hard to perceive whether the subject is showing ant emotion at all!!!! The hard to read face which is another major feature which many humans have as a condition. The image was taken by using side lighting this adds to the whole atmosphere (interesting yet menacing).

Fine art emotions of the human condition

I like these images as they show smugness and content /ambivalent, the images are taken with the butterfly lighting system again I feel that this works for the images as it highlights/ structures his cheekbones.

Fine art emotions of the human condition

I like this image as it shows aggression and loosing your head with frustration, I think that the images have been taken with butterfly lighting due to the shadow being just under his nose. This lighting method is usually used for female subjects so it is a different style that he has taken on the male object, but looking at the image it works really well.

Fine Art Portraiture

I have chosen to do self portraits for my fine art, the reason that I have chosen to do self portraits is that I feel that this shows emotion, this meaning that I can express my self emotions/feelings more than asking another person to try and show my emotion for me as they can not feel what I am feeling, therefore it is not a true representation of the human condition of emotions whether these be happy, sad, moody, angry and sexy etc...

I have chosen to replicate the images of Patrick Demarchelier and his portraits of Robin Williams, as I feel that these are great examples of emotions.

PEOPLE - Colour Workshop

This is a Contact Print Sheet which was created using Adobe Bridge. Contact print are essential to see all your pictures in one place before choosing which ones you may want to use.