{"id":88,"date":"2010-05-20T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2024-03-02T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:47:58","slug":"low-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/low-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Low key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I wanted to get to the bottom of low key photography so I would know exactly what was going on with that (and not just take a dark photograph and call it low key). Searching the internet for \u201clow key portrait lighting\u201d or something like that yields\u00a0enough material to study.<\/p>\n<p>You need some directional light (a grid works well) that is mostly (or only) shed on the subject. I was afraid the highlights would be too dim but that was not the case. Watch out for posterisation in the dark parts of the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>I put my subjects (a banana and a walnut) on my dark wooden table, put a gridded light straight next to them (about a meter away). With some carboard I flagged the wall and the biggest part of the table so the light would only reach my banana (or walnut). I created some fill with a white piece of paper.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20100520_Y1S0335-Low-key-banana.jpg\" alt=\"Low key banana\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low key banana &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20100520_Y1S0354-Low-key-walnut.jpg\" alt=\"Low key walnut\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low key walnut &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small exercise in low key photography with a nut and a banana. Turns out it\u2019s not that hard, check out the description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}