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Low-key photo suggestions for fish?
Ok, let us separate this into 2 parts.
I. The inverse square law.
In this case is the relationship between your light and your first object (1) versus the light and the background (2). The background, ...
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How to take a dark photo of a dark room?
Cameras by default try to make the average of photo to be 18% gray (as light, not as colour). So your camera do not know the room is dark and try to lighten it. To avoid this you can try in fully ...
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How can I keep light from reaching the background in low key photography?
Lighting in photography is about ratios, not intensity. You can pretty much expose anything to make it low key but I understand that what you want is to have a darker background than your subject.
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How can I keep light from reaching the background in low key photography?
Low key photography is about using less light than you would usually do to correctly expose a shot and thus creating a darker image.
Low key photography can be done outside of a studio(and you can ...
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How can I keep light from reaching the background in low key photography?
Make sure that the light of your strobe doesn't reach you background
There are several ways to achieve a dark background. When you look at them are pretty obvious. Each light on my diagram is just an ...
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How can I keep light from reaching the background in low key photography?
It was already explained that the intensity of the light arriving on a surface falls off in intensity with distance. This is explained by what is called the “Law of the Inverse Square”. In practical ...
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Low-key photo suggestions for fish?
One thing that may help is to move the background farther back so that avoid having any flash spill onto it. There's no reason that the background needs to be right up against the tank, although you ...
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Does a high aperture impact exposure differently than a high shutter-speed?
That saying that "aperture controls flash and shutter controls ambient" is only somewhat a little bit true in the context of flash pictures. Aperture always affects BOTH flash and ambient equally. ...
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What setup should I use to take a picture of a model holding a candle in front of a lighted pool?
There are a lot of variables here, some depending on the scene and some just depending on what you want. Either way, though, this is certainly a lot more about the scene and the lighting than about ...
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What setup should I use to take a picture of a model holding a candle in front of a lighted pool?
"Low Key" has little to do with the lighting... it refers to the tones of the resulting image all (or nearly all) being midtone or darker.
From your description I don't think I would plan on using ...
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How to take a dark photo of a dark room?
What to do depends on what you want to show. There's one exposure set if you want shadows to be lightened, another if you want shadows to be dark grey, and another if you want them to be full black. ...
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