The Use of Lighting to Create a Mood

The Use of Lighting to Create a Mood

High Key Lighting

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Hight key Lighting are mostly bright images, with a range of white and light tones and not very many black or mid-tones. It gives of a happy, upbeat mood.

Using a white or light pastel coloured background

Low Key Lighting

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Low key is the opposite to High key lighting and depends on shadows, deep blacks and darker tones with hardly any white and middle tones. Low key lighting gives of a mysterious, dramatic mood.

 

[1] Javier Garceche & Luis de las Alas,2011, Unknown [digital image] [22/10/15] Available from: http://www.liligabbiano.com/?tag=luis-de-las-alas

[2]Anon.n.d.Unknown [digital image] [22/10/15] Available from: http://digital-photography-school.com/low-key-lighting-portrait-example/

Research
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/3558/using-lighting-style-to-create-mood-high-key-and-low-key-lighting/