flash & ambient light – reverse engineering an image � Neil vN – tangents

flash & ambient light – reverse engineering an image. С недавних пор одно из любимых развлечений: попытаться определить световую схему по готовой фотографии. Студийного опыта у меня вообще никакого, поэтому с качественными студийными фотографиями у меня редко что получается, а вот «стробисты» гораздо проще раскусываются.

Looking at the photo, the first thing we need to figure out, is the direction of light. It is apparent that Josh had used additional lighting of some kind. The main source of light was set up to camera-left. We can make a pretty good guess at how high the light must have been, by looking at how the shadows are placed. The first place I would look as at our model’s face, and see how the shadow of her nose falls on her face. And from that we have a fairly good idea of the placement of the light.