{"id":165181,"date":"2019-08-20T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=165181"},"modified":"2019-08-20T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:39:13","slug":"in-praise-of-low-key-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/in-praise-of-low-key-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Low-Key Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Low-key:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shooting photos with a lower-exposure (darker).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Low-key = darker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A simple thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re shooting your photos, lower the exposure-compensation to -1 or -2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For example on RICOH GR III, I’ve been shooting P [program mode] in JPEG ‘high contrast’ mode, and shooting many of my photos at -1 or -2 exposure compensation. Under-exposing your photos (shooting your photos darker) ‘protects the highlights’ — which darkens the overall mood of the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason why I like low-key photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photos have a deeper and darker mood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In black and white, low-key photos look VERY DIFFERENT from reality (artistic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When does low-key work well?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In my experience, when it is very bright outside (super sunny), better to shoot -1 or -2 exposure compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This works well when photographing shadows<\/a>, silhouettes<\/a>, or bright\/white surfaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paint a mood in your photos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I think this is what we are trying to do with our photos and artwork:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paint a certain mood which enraptures your viewer, which transports your viewer into a new world!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Low-key: Shooting photos with a lower-exposure (darker).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cropped-macbook-screens-109-of-112.jpg?fit=2000%2C1126&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165181"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165194,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165181\/revisions\/165194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}