Photo Deconstruction: Renaissance Painting inspired Portrait

Описание: This week I'm going to show you how combining the right lighting, makeup and background elements you can create an image that looks like a Renaissance inspired painting!

The setup:

I ended up using four different strobes to achieve a painterly look. You don't NEED that many lights -- you can achieve this with much less, even 1 light, but you'll see in the video why I used them.

My first light is a large umbrella with diffusion, this gives a very soft overall glow to the shot and it's a sculptural light that carves out the cheekbones and the jaw. My second light just has a five degree grid and I call this a "face light" because it is dedicated just to illuminating her eyes and making her face pop a little bit more.

Next, we consider the background and the hair light, using a bare bulb, it'll give a little bit of a rim light to her hair into her jaw line. My goal was to create a little bit of a haze, a little bit of a glow from going for a Renaissance painting. I wanted it to feel quite heavenly and sometimes a little bit of flair will help achieve this.

I used something called a Black Pro-mist filter by Tiffen and what it does is it takes a light source and it makes it glow a little bit and gave my image more heavenly, painterly look.

The fourth light is a small white umbrella pointed towards the background. I licensed this background (file) from AdobeStock.com, and went to a company called Kate Backdrop and had it printed on a micro fiber background which is very portable and inexpensive.

Camera Settings:

I’m using a Canon 5D Mark IV and 24-105mm lens and I shot at 4.0.

Post Processing:

Since I was using a grid it resulted in really bringing out the texture on the model's face because of it being such a hard light source.

I opted to clean up the blemishes, pores etc to give it even more of that painted look. I also fixed her hair a little bit and I cleaned up the smoothness of the edge of the jawline.

From the original photograph to the end product for painterly images like these, the best source of inspiration is to actually look at old paintings and to develop your concept around that.

If you want to know more about shooting in a very painterly style, I recommend you check out Chris Knight. Chris Knight his entire style, his entire essence of his imagery is based around inspiration for paintings. Has a tutorial called Finding Rembrandt that deconstructs Rembrandt paintings and how you can apply those concepts to your own work. 👉 https://blog.chrisknightphoto.com/fin...

So, what did you think? Did I capture that painterly Renaissance style? Drop a comment below and let me know what you think!

Now it's your turn to try this out!


📸 Gear:

✅ Canon 5DIV: https://prf.hn/l/EJDBPoe/
✅ Canon 24-105mm 4.0 lens: https://prf.hn/l/deZLnJq/
✅ Profoto D1: (discontinued, linking to new D3): https://prf.hn/l/K9ENnmk/
✅ Profoto XL Deep Umbrella White with Diffusion: https://prf.hn/l/W4xmYOj/
✅ Profoto 5 degree Grid: https://prf.hn/l/aWPNNYl/
✅ Profoto Small White Umbrella: https://prf.hn/l/QLG84O2/
✅ Tiffen 77mm Black Pro Mist #1/8 Special Effects Filter: https://prf.hn/l/0egzL0P/
✅ Backdrop: Katebackdrop.com

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