Low-key portraiture using a single light: Exploring photography with Mark Wallace

 

 

Continuing his four-part series on basic lighting, photographer Mark Wallace's latest video for Exploring Photography is about low-key lighting for portraiture. Specifically, the video is about creating a low-key portrait using a single off-camera light.

To achieve the desired effect, Wallace shows how to position the light, which modifiers to use and how to create the right size of effective light on the subject. While Wallace utilizes a Profoto B2 light, which is a very high-end light, you can achieve the same effect with much more affordable lights, including simple off-camera flash.

If you'd like to see prior videos from Wallace's lighting series, click here.

(Via Adorama)