A series of high key portraits of Naomi.

[julianliu]

I got to shoot some photos of Naomi yesterday. She was my model many times and she actually learned pretty quick to model, as I just discovered through looking at the photos afterwards. And her mom brought lots of clothes, mainly just dresses for her to change so we got relatively many different looks.
I found it's easy to do high key portraits as I just need to turn up all the lights and place them properly. But I always wanted to do some low key portraits and I found it's challenging as I need to pay attention to the shadows so much. But we would agree for kids high key is better just because they tend to move around a lot and difficult to control the light.

 

[Tinderbox (UK)]

Great photo`s well done.

John.

 

[tirediron]

While those are cute shots, they are definitely NOT high key! A true high key shot is a very low contrast image, with no visible shadows and normally on a pure white background. This is (IMO) an almost high-key shot: http://www.johnsphotography.ca/hold/Temp/Kelsey (4).jpg

Note that in yours, you have a very prominent shadow on the [image] left side of the face as well as on the floor. The ideal way to light a high key shot is with four lights; two on the background and two on the subject. If it's a close shot, you can get away with one on the background, and if you're really careful, you can almost get away with one for the background, and one for the subject (my example).