High key image. Comments welcome

[itsDing]

The background was lit from behind. Comments welcome.

 

[Bernard D]

I personally love it, I love that the background is so bright, yet the beautiful model is so well exposed.

Really well done.

Bernard

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[bm bradley698936]

just beautiful.... great work

 

[RedFox88]

The background was lit from behind. Comments welcome.

Nice, though it is not a high key image. Only the background is very bright. Subject is normally exposed for.

 

[itsDing]

Not a high key image! What is your version or idea of a high key image?

 

[itsDing]

Perhaps Red means those white background images where horrible light has reflected and splashed on the sides of subjects faces. l have carefully lit this image to stop that happening by ensuring the light from the background has fallen off enough so not to light the subject. What is a high key picture Red?

 

[JoannaR]

This isn't high-key, though the image is nice.

This is what I think of when I hear the terms hi-key and low-key.

http://www.cowbellyblog.com/2010/04/17/low-key-high-key-dog-images/

 

[itsDing]

lf l had cropped to head and shoulders would that be high key? Maybe if instead of the girl was laying not on the white rug but on white vynl and floating in a white void, that would be high key. Perhaps more ore less modeling with the lights, would that produce high key? l have only been a pro photographer since 1970, maybe l need more experience to understand what high key images are.

 

[tocarver]

It's a beautiful image, well done. As to whether it's a true High Key image, it seems you believe it is , here's a link that may explain why some are saying it's not a true high key image.

If the dress had of been white or light pastel shade, that might be what some are eluding to??

http://photocamel.com/forum/tutorials/35976-high-key-imaging.html

lf l had cropped to head and shoulders would that be high key? Maybe if instead of the girl was laying not on the white rug but on white vynl and floating in a white void, that would be high key. Perhaps more ore less modeling with the lights, would that produce high key? l have only been a pro photographer since 1970, maybe l need more experience to understand what high key images are.

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[Paul Auclair]

i can only wonder what style of "Pro" you've been since 1970 and i wonder if you treat your clientel with a sinical sarcasm (unjust as it is) i've read in your replies.

high key does not mean everything is blown out or subject is floating in a void of whiteness.

high key means the majority of tonal values falls above middle range

low key means the majority of tonal values fall below middle range
mid key (as you now should be able to guess) is what i find your image to be in.

as a note... when i was an much more inexperienced photographer i assumed low key simply meant an image had a dark background and high key simply had a white background. as you should now clearly now know this is simply not the case and i was wrong.
good day.
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[charleyd]

This is a beautifully executed photograph. Good pose, great lighting. But, it isn't High-Key. As someone already mentioned, the tones are generally lifted between mid-tone and washed out on the subject. You can have a black background and still have an high-key image. Requires considerable skill to produce an image that looks right. Something I don't possess.

 

[itsDing]

So if the girl had been wearing a white dress and white shoes! l think a few people are being pedantic.

 

[Paul Auclair]

if you say its high key than its high key. OK now?

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[tocarver]

Why do you bother with " High key image. Comments welcome " People have expressed their opinions, and, obviously, they aren't welcomed or appreciated!!
Constructive crirtique depends on being "Pedantic"

Try telling that to a judge in a print competition, I'm sure your opinion will sway the photographic doctrines and established viewpoints.

If you are so rude as to not thank folks for making the effort to comment on your image and enlighten you as to it's misquoted style, you can just keep on doing and calling what you do, anything you wish!!

So if the girl had been wearing a white dress and white shoes! l think a few people are being pedantic.

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[PenguinPhotoCo]

a mid-key image, a term rarely used, is one that has most of it's tones around middle gray, not dark nor light overall.

Low key is a of course an image where most tones are darker.

Hi-key is where most tones are lighter - like this image. It's not extreme high key, but everything is in the same key. Now if the subject were in a black dress that would make it a mixed-key image.
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[itsDing]

As an apprentice in the 60's l remember another student (he worked for the News of the World newspaper) bringing in a picture to night school of Sean Connery wearing an evening suit (Black) on a white background, the lecturer held it up as a good example of a high key image. The student was taken on assigment with a senior photographer as many of us were in those days and mananged to get the shot. We were taught mainly about black and white. Colour was way too complicated for us humble chaps. l cant remember great deal about what constitued true high or low key. lt was generaly accepted that a white background was high key and dark was low key. l read a link posted here and it seems there is a technically correct description for such. ln the real world l and others have no problem with describing the image as high key.

 

[carl english]

I must agree with redfox, its not a high key image also your opening statement is not accurate (comments welcome) it should read, comments welcome only if they are positive.

Carl

 

[itsDing]

Carl, comments l was looking for were about the lighting of the subject. l take great pains to light subjects so there is minimal light hitting the sides of faces coming from the background. l see a lot of pro pictures and others which have this light on faces, its what l call splashback. l consider they should take more care not to have it. l would have been happy to describe my lighting technique had l been asked. lf l want light on the side of a face then l will use a seperate light.

 

[Peter Berressem]

My 2 centavos or pennies... back in the b&w 60th, high-key was considered when exposure and development achieved a contrasty, low tone result, i.e. nearly no medium grey values. This example from wiki commons shows typically what I mean:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_NewsPhoto ! - High-key_(1).jpg?uselang=de

At present (and specifically in the US) people refer to high key simply to images which's tonal majority is in the upper range of the histogram. Not a big deal for me as I'm able to keep up with the times
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[itsDing]

Link not working Peter