Sweet Ethereal Photography

Manipulating the light?

It's sort of a technical question, but I hope that others might learn something something well. If you've ever seen in black and white fine art photography, you will notice that the lighting is perfect. Perfect contrast, and beautiful exhibition. But I wanted to ask, what is the best way to light sufficient to meet these lighting conditions? What is used, natural or artificail light? Here are some examples I found online: http://www.ralphgibson.com/archive/ If natural light is used, what is the best way to capture? What I mean is do I use a high ISO, slow shutter speed, a large opening …. Is this film seems to capture the light better than digital? Thank you for any advice.

Good lighting can give shape and depth of a scene. You must watch the direction from, and switch to light the right way to capture it. They used to tell people to shoot with the sun at your back. In the days of slow film, which helped to enliven a scene. Unfortunately, this also means your models have been squinting at the sun, and the right the light was too flat to give any depth. This is the most annoying type of lighting is there. All you have to do is find a trunk tree that is lit by the sun to see how it works. Look carefully at each side, and you will see that you get more depth and dimension when the sun touches the opposite side. The sun is on your left or right. This is also a contrast of the scene from above, though. You get a nice balance of shape and contrast if the light is a porthole between direct and direct light. Turn so that the light is from directly behind you and directly to your sides. This quarter sidelight. If the contrast is too high, fill out a little with direct flash, or reflect a little light scene. For more drama, you can use backlighting, but your hand will be the highest. You can use the silhouette of your subject and show a beautiful sunset sky, or let your background wash and information is on your subject. Or you can use fill flash or reflectors.