Lighting and Portrait Photography Workshop

This photo was taken at a mid shot, lit with soft box lighting from the right side of the models face and I used a fan to create the movement of the hair. This gave the model a more glamorous, effortless and elegant look. However even though I was        

happy with shot of the photograph I did crop out the elbows slightly which is a framing issue and the lighting is too bright.

The brightness was too high on the photo to the left which was the original photograph that i took. I wanted to improve the photo because a lot of my previous photos had been over exposed such  this one due to the soft box lighting not being positioned correctly or having to many lights in general. To fix this and improve the quality of my photographs I uploaded them onto  Photoshop and turned down the brightness and turned up the contrast slightly. I can see that by just adjusting the lighting on Photoshop it had really improved the quality of my photograph.

A mid shot; the softbox lighting has been placed to the right of the model and slightly below to model. The shot was successful in terms of framing as the model is central to the photo graph and all of her hair is in shot. This allowed for the full effect of the dynamic movement of her head to been displayed in the photo. However, again

like previous photos I have over lit the shot and the

excess light makes the models facial features retreat back into the photo rather than stand out. The photo on the right was over lit on the right side of the model face, to solve this problem I uploaded the photo onto Photoshop and turned down the brightness and slightly altered the contrast. This improved the quality and clarity of the photo a significant amount.