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May 1, 2012 By Sarah Halstead

High Key Photography

Filed Under: Photography, Tutorials Tagged With: photography tips, photography tutorial

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! Ashley of Ramblings and Photos and I will be bringing you a new challenge every week, to stretch your shooting and editing skills. A few weeks ago I shared a tutorial on how to do Low Key Photography. This week I am going to share the opposite, High Key Photography.
With High Key Photography you want little to no shadows in your photo. It can be very useful when trying to highlight a particular product, so that all the focus is on the product. It can also make a photo look very cheery and fun!

Below are a couple of photos I took using the tips.

High Key Photography

High Key Photography

Some tips to follow:

You will want a white background and a bright room. Then you want to have studio lights or big windows/door and a reflector to help prevent shadows.

As far as camera settings you want to let as much light in as possible when shooting your photo. That may mean using a tripod with a slow shutter speed for still objects. Or a higher ISO and Shutter Speed for fast moving subjects like kids.

You will want to overexpose your shots in camera. Makes less work in post processing. (Which I should have done on my photos)

High Key Lighting is not necessarily just high contrast. It is overall a brighter picture.

When editing you can use the trick that Ashley wrote about here to make the background more white.

Overall you want a bright, mostly shadow free background.

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  1. [email protected] says

    May 6, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    These photos make me smile!
  2. Angela says

    May 6, 2012 at 12:53 am

    These are wonderful shots and I love this technique! You are such a great teacher, along with Ashley! The candy shot looks mouth-watering1 Did you have them set on glass to get the reflection under them?
  3. teachinfourth says

    May 3, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    The final look on a few of these photos is amazing! I love the shallow depth of field as well, it really draws your eyes to the subject.
  4. Amy @ Little Adventures says

    May 3, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    I love these Sarah! :)
  5. Ashley Sisk says

    May 2, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Another great tutorial Sarah - I really love this style.
  6. Andee- Match the Pictures says

    May 1, 2012 at 11:20 pm

    I love the cheez-its. This was such a fun tutorial. I really enjoyed it and I'm hoping to practice some more. Thanks for all the tips!
  7. Kim Young says

    May 1, 2012 at 11:44 am

    I have never intentionally done high key, but I guess a lot of mine could be classified as it. ;) Very cool.
  8. Laura says

    May 1, 2012 at 10:49 am

    I love the shot of your name spelled out in crackers--too cute!
  9. Gina says

    May 1, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Those cheez-its are awesome!!!!
  10. Life with Kaishon says

    May 1, 2012 at 8:05 am

    I think those letter crackers are so cool : )

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