High key lighting

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High-Key Lighting

In this article, you'll learn when you might want to choose the high-key photography style and how you can achieve it both when shooting and in editing.

To recreate the Platon photography style, the amount of studio equipment you need is fairly modest. Ideally, you will need a couple of flash guns, but you can do it with one if you decide to turn the background white digitally.

There are a few different ways to achieve a nice high key image done with studio lighting and natural light. Here's how I do it.

High Key is a term to describe images that are bright and contain little to no shadow. The term comes from the early days of broadcast television when scenes with higher contrast were not reproduced well. To make a scene that was easier to properly show on screen, the ratio between the key and fill lights was minimized. It is also sometimes used to describe photos and the photographic style that is simply bright, often with an overexposed background.

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