{"id":270,"date":"2013-12-27T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:36:33","slug":"dramatic-portrait-lighting-with-lisa-rigby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/dramatic-portrait-lighting-with-lisa-rigby\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic portrait lighting with Lisa Rigby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a few of my previous posts, I talked about how I like to photograph women using a beauty lighting set up. But sometimes, breaking the rules is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>In the commercial world, one typically sees \u2018happy\u2019 pictures. Light tones without deep shadows. For some subjects, however, a more dramatic, darker mood is a better fit. Musicians and athletes tend to fall in that category. Maybe it\u2019s just me, but most musicians I know relate to darker, moodier photographs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Philippe-Monthoux-Lisa-Rigby-Portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Philippe-Monthoux-Lisa-Rigby-Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Singer songwriter Lisa Rigby holding a mandolin profile portrait\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Profile pictures lend themselves better to moodier lighting in my opinion. Lisa is holding a mandolin, a favourite instrument of hers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A while back, I set up a few portrait sessions with Edinburgh based singer\/songwriter Lisa Rigby.\u00a0 We did a sunset\/night urban decay photo shoot, another shoot in a park and a portrait session at a friend\u2019s house. The sunset photographs had a mood of their own, but I wanted to try to get much more dramatic images. Since the photographs are all about tonal contrast, bright areas versus dark shadows, I felt colour was a distraction, and the pictures were converted to black and white.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Philippe-Monthoux-Lisa-RIgby-Urban-Decay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-272\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Philippe-Monthoux-Lisa-RIgby-Urban-Decay.jpg\" alt=\"Singer songwriter Lisa Rigby looking at a painted face on a wall in Granton, Edinburgh\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When I saw the painting of the face on the wall, I immediately thought of this picture. We also provided some entertainment for the security camera operator, who followed us around the courtyard for the duration of the shoot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few of my previous posts, I talked about how I like to photograph women using a beauty lighting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27,50,20,14,43,19],"tags":[25,188,53,22,87,17,7,21],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-white","category-edinburgh","category-light","category-lighting","category-music","category-photography-2","category-portrait","tag-black-and-white","tag-edinburgh","tag-light-2","tag-lighting-2","tag-lisa-rigby","tag-musician","tag-photography","tag-portrait-2","has-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Philippe-Monthoux-Lisa-Rigby-Portrait.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Philippe-Monthoux-Lisa-Rigby-Portrait.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"PhilsBlog","author_link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/author\/philsblog\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}