{"id":77,"date":"2013-01-26T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:32:31","slug":"one-light-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/one-light-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"One Light Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/b-f.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/b-f.jpg\" alt=\"one light portrait\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/b-f.jpg 600w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/b-f-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Think you need a full studio to take a terrific dramatic <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/portrait-photographer.html\">portrait<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>This is a simple one light portrait, referred to as &#8220;Paramount Lighting&#8221; (AKA &#8220;Butterfly Lighting&#8221;).\u00a0 Paramount Lighting was developed by a photographer at Paramount Studios in the 1930s. It was a dramatic and easy way to take publicity photos of their stars. It was an easy setup and proved to be very dramatic. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portrait_photography\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used a 300 watt daylight fluorescent bulb and a small 16&#8243; square soft-box with one diffuser panel. (No flash, continuous light)\u00a0 Placed above the camera, pointed at the subject.\u00a0 Used a tripod.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aperture 2.8<\/li>\n<li>Shutter Speed 1\/160<\/li>\n<li>ISO 640<\/li>\n<li>50mm 1.4 lens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Photoshop I posterized the background, and saturated the orange decals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you need a full studio to take a terrific dramatic portrait? This is a simple one light portrait, referred to as &#8220;Paramount Lighting&#8221; (AKA &#8220;Butterfly Lighting&#8221;).\u00a0 Paramount Lighting was developed by a photographer at Paramount Studios in the 1930s. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/one-light-portrait\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,1,15,31],"tags":[22,23,21,20,24,6],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-portrait","category-photography","category-portrait","category-studio-portait","tag-butterfly-lighting","tag-one-light-portrait","tag-paramount-lighting","tag-personal-portrait","tag-photoshop-effects","tag-take-better-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cxVk-1f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}