воскресенье, 03 марта 2013
I would like to quote Rense once more:
Low Key. It's like high key, but then the other way round: the
key tones in the photo - so everything between shadows and highlights - are low, dark. The result is a dark, moody photo, with only very sparse lights and highlights.
Read more..And Wikipedia:
Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It attempts to create a chiaroscuro effect. In traditional photographic lighting, three-point lighting uses a key light, a fill light, and a back light for even illumination. Low-key lighting requires only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector.
Low key light accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast. The relative strength of key-to-fill, known as the lighting ratio, can be measured using a light meter. Low key lighting has a higher lighting ratio, e.g. 8:1, than high key lighting, which can approach 1:1.
The term "low key" is used in cinematography to refer to any scene with a high lighting ratio, especially if there is a predominance of shadowy areas. It tends to heighten the sense of alienation felt by the viewer, hence is commonly used in film noir and horror genres.
Few more references:
The Exquisite Low Key Photography
Low Key Portrait Lighting Tutorial
Great Examples Of Low Key Photography
Dark & Mysterious: 20 Examples of Low-Key Photography
P52-2-12 Winning entry by your humble servant
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(Photos for the Week #12 competition are to be taken between Feb 25, 2013 and Mar 3, 2013.)
Rules
1. Anyone and everyone who is interested in eligible. The goal continues to be have fun and share comments, concepts, insights, and techniques with fellow Pentaxians.
2. Each week will feature a Theme and Sub-concept for you to explore.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-5 thread for the week. Explain what motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly theme.
4. Some post-processing is OK (adjusting white balance, exposure, color saturation), but let's try to stay away from heavily PP'ed images here. Try to keep the creativity to photographic techniques and the captures themselves.
5. Since this project is about technique, and not camera, shots taken by non Pentax cameras are allowed.
Cameras may be SLRs, DSLRs, Point & Shoot, Medium Format, et cetera.
6. There is one Theme Concept labeled Black and white, but feel free to post black and white, sepia, monotone, etc., for any of the other themes.
7. The picture you post should be taken during the week in which the theme is active to be eligible for judging.
8. Any picture taken from thread start date to listed closing date is acceptable.