Studio Photography

12. March 2009 by Friedhelm.

For studio portraits we are using large soft-boxes. They create a very soft light that is pleasing to the eye. The soft-box you see in the picture is called the main or key light. The second soft-box we use is called the fill light. The purpose of the main light is to lighten the subject. The purpose of the fill light is to soften the shadows created by the main light without creating new shadows on the subjects face. Therefor the main light has to be more powerful than the fill light. A good portrait ratio is that the main light is about three times as powerful as the key light.

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