Photography Today

Color the Light--Add Warmth to Your Images

Photographers know how to stimulate the eyes and wake-up your conscious. One method professional photographers predominately use to stimulate the mind is they tend to shoot more verticals than horizontals. Other methods of stimulation come by the use of various techniques, such as the proper composition and use of leading and implied lines, especially imaginary diagonals and S-curves. There are many methods, but with the evolution into digital photography, professional photographers can now add color to the light of the image—on the fly.

Rembrandt lighting

Many famous photographers take concepts and ideas from other artists, some study images as well as paintings in their goals to achieve better quality photographs that are compelling. Perhaps that is why there are only four basic types of lighting, fundamentally, and in those four types one is named after Rembrandt—one of my favorite styles of lighting often seen in photographers’ images of models for the Victoria Secrets catalog, Maxim and other magazines. The key in Rembrandt lighting is creating the triangle or diamond shape of light underneath the eye usually furthest from the camera lens. One side of the face is lit well from the main light source while the other side of the face uses the interaction of shadows and light, also known in college Art 101 classes as chiaroscuro, to create this geometric shape on the face.