FILM NOIR
The period of the 1940's is known as "Film Noir". As film was less sensitive to light, more creative light was added into scenes in movies and photography.Most films were also shot on set. This gave directors more control in this environment. This created moods and gave personalities to characters. Our task today was to re-create images with this mood.
The style was very classic and cropped in close to the subject. A lot of the images show film stars looking away from the camera. The difference between male and female photography was also very obvious. The men where given harder light and shadows. Women had softer mid tones making their images more flattering.
In a small group we re-created the image below;
Image of Vivian Leigh
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lighting setup
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We also made a sofa by joining two chairs together. After some experimenting with the light i achieved the image below. I used Photoshop to convert it to black and white and added some noise into the image to give the effect of grain.
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Vivian Leigh
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As simple as this image on the left looks, it was quite tricky to achieve. The main objective was to get the shadow of the eye lashes and the shadow under the nose.
This was done by using a key reflector on the right hand side higher up and required the model to tilt her head, I then used a reflector to fill in under the left hand side.
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1/125 f9 ISO 100 lens 50mm
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Great shots Farva!! love the lighting. Wish to see more contrasts. There is to much mid tones.
ReplyDeletethanks michal for the comment, yes too many mid-tones. i think next time i will use a dark backdrop.
ReplyDeleteHi Farva, you have already recognised that you used too low a lighting ratio for the second shot. Technically though a great result; you clearly have put that extra effort in that is needed on shoots like this. They are not easy! You needn't have added film grain to your first shot. These photographs were taken on slow film on large format film, so would hardly show any grain at all.
ReplyDeleteThanks James. yes will take on board about the grain, i think it was the image i looked at on the internet. It was a fun workshop and really helpful to learn about this style.
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