Mood Lighting in Photography

Video Transcript

"This is Mark Bowers, from bowersphotography.com. I'm in American Fork, Utah, and this segment, we're talking about mood lighting. Now, we're just going to show you a little bit about what a light does as it travels around your face. I've just got a little reflector with a little bit of softening on it, and as we move it around the face, we want to see a little bit what it does for back lighting, and move the light around, a little bit more to side lighting, move it around.This is actually called loop lighting, and glamor light is straight on, and we can also do the other side, but the really moody things, lights, come from underneath, where there's a highlight under your chin, a highlight under your nose, a highlight under your eye. It's not natural in nature, and that's why it stands out as really a moody style of light, and so it's the direction of the light, that really creates the mood, and now, I'd like to show you an example of what we did with some mood lighting, continued. It's a nice guy that really wanted to get into ultimate fighting, and had to have some professional portraits done, of what he could do. We placed lights behind him, and to the side slightly, and created a lot of the contrast, between the highlights, and the shadows, to really show off the mood, of this type of photograph."