3 headed lighting kit.

With three lights, you have enough power to create realistic lighting for a scene, and also avoid any unwanted shadows. This particular setup can be used for numerous lighting scenarios including interview lighting, portraits, headshots, or product photography.Different light modifiers will evoke different feelings. Barndoors can create a dramatic effect or highlight a certain feature on your subject that you may be trying to emphasize. Softboxes give you that nice natural diffused light that makes everything just a bit softer and gives a very flattering look to your subject.You can use a 3 point set up for both indoor and outdoor shoots. However, be advised that you might have to use gels to change the color temperature of the light to achieve the right look depending where you shoot and with what types of lights.As you can see in the diagram, the Key light and Fill lights are at about a 45 degree angle from the camera. The Key light will be the most powerful light source in the scene. You will want to keep the Fill & Back lights at a lower  intensity to compliment the Key by filling in the rest of the light. That way, you will achieve a soft, even light.

Once the Fill light is added, you have a nice even light. The light seems natural and it gives the subject a warm, attractive look. As you can see, you can manipulate the light to achieve different effects and mood.With the addition of a Backlight, the subject is now illuminated a little more and you can see an outline form around your subject, giving them more depth.With just the Key light you will get a lot of shadow across the subjects face and the subject is not fully lit.

Photographer who Inspires me?

Terry Richardson

Terrence "Terry" Richardson  was born August 141965, he is a incredibly famous American fashion photographer, who has photographs quirky images of famous celebrities. Such as Beyonce, Kanye west, Jared Leto, Obama,Robert Downey Jr, Lindsey Lohan , Lady gaga,Ben Stiller and many more. Richardson has produced several award winning campaigns for Diesel, including the ‘Global Warming Ready’ which won a Silver Lion for Print at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2007.Throughout the years he has also produced several private portraits for the company’s founder, Renzo Rosso. His alleged attitude towards models has been criticised by Danish model and filmmaker Rie Rasmussen and others, who have accused Richardson of exploiting models he photographs.But model and actress Noot Seear has defended him, pointing out that he does not pressure those he works with into doing anything they are uncomfortable with. Although Richardson does produce some controversial images but he does create interesting, detailed and quirky photographs. Its not the explicit images that bother or interest me, i like he's style, with out a doubt he's images are imaginative, quirky and interesting. The portraiture is unique and different to any other photographer i know, which is what makes him as popular and famous as he is. In all fairness Richardson's images do not show much photographic 'talent' with the use of light, shadows etc, but overall he's images are interesting and do provoke emotion. Richardson tends to work in black and white, which again makes him more of a unique photographer. He tends to take unique images of different parts of the model, for example their hair, eyes, chest etc. These are usually done up close to again provoke or show emotion. Richardson is known for always pulling a "cheesy grin with two thumps up" wearing a checkered red shirt, with big black goofy classes, which many times are used as props for his models, this again gives a unique and memorable style to his work. Also he always has photographs with containing himself and his models which again most photographers don't do.You can tell Richardson's photographs straight away as they have such a specific feel and style. The setting is mainly always a plain white background which depending on the lighting and shadows makes it a darker or lighter tone. The reason why i think Richardson's uses a plain and basic background is to suggest that the most important element of his images is not the lighting, the setting or formal elements but the actual celebrity he is photographing. Which suggests his main purpose to show and provoke emotion through the models and not by the "photographic formal elements". The reasons why Terry Richardson inspires me is because i want people to look at my photographs and immediately know i took them, i want to have a specific style that makes my images unique and different to anyone else. Although i don't want my photographs to be controversial but i want them to provoke an emotion or feeling. I tend to photograph up close instead of far away which is a thing Richardson's does. For example iinstead of taking a picture of a whole flower in a field, i would rather take an image of the inside of the flower, which i believe gives more tone,texture and meaning.