Side Lightening
With side lighting, the face is lit more strongly on one side than the other. This type of lighting is well suited for men as it shows off their masculine features and young women that have smooth skin and regular facial features. Side lighting involves finding or creating a source of light that will light up or darken one side of the subject in a photograph. Side lighting can come from either side and be directed in a number of angles so as to cast shadows in a particular way. It can add a dramatic or dark element to a photograph that could otherwise have been simple or even bland. Side lighting suggests a mysterious look or a dark side to the subject, whether it’s a person or object.
Front lightening
Front lighting is when the sun is directly in front of the subject. It is quite popular because it’s easier for the photographer to take the photograph when the sun is behind him/her. Front lighting is used when you want to enhance shadows to increase the depth of your photograph. It suggests the powerfulness in the subject and it makes it look intriguing. It can also soften female features to give a more friendly tone.
Some of the images that we had taken to show different lighting techniques such as side and front lighting went wrong because they had different shutter speeds and some images were either under or over exposed. Above is one example. In this image we have used side lighting but it has a slow shutter speed because it’s quite dark.
Some images can be either under or over exposed which means that the image is either too dark or too bright. To prevent this, the image should be taken again with a different shutter speed. Shutter speeds let certain amounts of light into an image. If you slower the shutter speed it can change the darkness of the image. Also, having a slow shutter speed can cause motion blur which means the image blurs through movement. A fast shutter speed freezes the image to stop it from blurring.
On the cameras we used there was an ISO speed with controls the speed of the cells which react with light which could be night time (high speed) and day time (low speed).
This is an example of poor framing which is when a photo has a person on that has its limbs cut off or it’s too far away. In this image the foot of the character is cut off so this is known as ‘poor framing’. The solution for poor framing is to review images when you have taken them, take your time when shooting the images, put the camera on continuity shot mode so that you can get loads of that image so you’re more likely to get a decent image, get closer to your subject of use a tripod.
