Portrait Demo

In this project, we learned how to take a good quality portrait picture. We took one in the studio, and one next to a window. To take a good portrait picture, you need 3 sources of light. They are called the key light, fill light, and a hair light. The key light is the main source of light, and on the side of the subject. The fill light is on the opposite side, and that is used to reduce shadows created by the key light. The hair light is placed behind the subject, and it is somewhat dim. In the studio we had all of these lights for us to use. But in the window picture, the light from the window was the key light. For the fill light, we had to use a white poster board as an alternative. We then combined the two pictures in one on Gimp. I learned a lot in this demo, and it was fun.