Lighting for Photography Studios

Video Transcript

"Hello. This is Mark Bowers from bowersphotography.com in Utah, and this is a segment on lighting for photography in the studio. Basically what I get, is my object is to try to make a person three dimensional to put them on a two dimensional piece of photographic paper. And what I usually start with is the key light which is right here and I use a reflector. This I got just down at the hardware store and it's just regular styrofoam. I coated this with a white shelf paper. I have a hair light and I have this to keep the light from flashing back into my camera. I obviously put the hair light just a little bit higher so that it's not in the shot. I usually use accent light which is right here to help make a face three dimensional and I have a background light back here that I hide behind people, the skinniest flash that I could find, and I also put colored gels on the background light to change the colors of the background. I can do blue or red or yellow of green."