Different lighting in photoshoots

Side Lighting

• Side lighting is when the lighting is coming from the side which usually provides a great deal of contrast and can create long shadows and adds depth to the image. This type of lighting can make the image look more dramatic.

Back Lighting

• Back lighting is when light is behind your subject and is directed at you and your camera. This type of lighting creates silhouettes quiet easily. Combined with certain atmospheric conditions such as fog or airborne dust you can get dramatic lighting effects.

Rim Lighting

• When light comes in at an acute angle it can create highlights along the edges of your subject. The stark contrast that it provides highlights shape and form. This type of lighting adds impact to wildlife and nature photography.

Spotlight

• Very simply Spot Light is when a focused amount of light highlights a particular section of your subject or scene. This type of lighting can create strong shadows and contrast. Spot light can add dramatic impact to all genres of photography.

Artificial Lighting

• The most obvious type of lighting is Artificial lighting. This can be generated from a variety studio lights, and built in or external flash units. There are few genres of photography that Artificial lighting cannot be used successfully. 

Frontal lighting

• Frontal lighting is lighting that comes either from behind the camera or from the camera itself. Frontal lighting has one big advantage as it evenly illuminates your model. 

Low Key Lighting

• Low key light accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast.

Hight Key lighting

• High key photography is a modern lighting technique that is based on using mid-tone greys through to bright whites. The use of bright lights and lighting to eliminate shadow reduced the contrasts in the picture.

When setting up a shoot and deciding what equipment you need it is important to take in account what skin type you are photographing as some things don't work with certain skin tones.

For example in one of the practicals we were using white polyboard's either side of the model for the light to bounce from the boards onto the face to reduce any shadows around their face.

References 

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