Lighting- Perou

The use of lighting in a photo can either decide whether the photo will be terrible or brilliant. Making lighting on a photo depends on how you use your camera. Your camera will use the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera. If the lighting is totally wrong, then the photo may look completely wrong and the light might reflect off all the wrong places. However, as i said it can make a photo look brilliant but only if the light reflects of the right places and shines on to the correct places then you will get a spectacular photo.

This photo is a good example of lighting because the light shines right onto his face and makes a reflection onto the background behind.


Factual: Richard Armitage in December 2010, shot by Perou.

Context: This is a head and shoulder shot by British Fashion and music photographer Perou. His images much like this one has a strong sharpness about them, shot so that it records everything in the photo with sharp detail and crystal clear precision.


Technique: I think that this photo has been shot just in a studio with a white background. Richard has been put in plain clothing to make him blend in with the background. I think that Perou put quite a lot of lighting in front of him so that it made a shadow behind him.


Aesthetics: In this photo i really like the lighting in this photo because the light shines on him and creates a reflection onto the background. This shows us that the light has reflected of him and hasn't reached the background behind him. I also like this photo because colour is almost absent in the shot. A white background, a white shirt and black hair. The only colour in this photo is of the skin, the red lips and the blue eyes. This makes the lighting look even more spectacular on this model.



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