The best high key tutorial in the universe

So… remember my little rant about shooting on white bedsheets? If you don’t remember it, CLICK HERE and read, I’ll wait.

Recently, a Wootness reader commented on that article:

If the skill level is only at the bed sheet stage, then getting white seamless paper is going to be useless. They will have no clue why it come out grey in their photo. It will be highly unlikely they will have the proper lighting and know how to overexpose the paper for white. So if they are going to have an ugly background anyway, it might as well be a wrinkled bed sheet.

Well, that may be true, but I think a little education is in order. Frankly, I’m tired of seeing the bedsheets (and the not-so-good high key). Now I can certainly sit down and write a tutorial on high key photography, but it’s already been done. And very well, I might add. There’s no reason to re-invent the wheel.

Let me introduce you to Zack Arias. You may have heard of him. He’s a photographer that’s been elevated to “Rockstar” status, although don’t confuse him with the Rockstars I wrote about HERE, this man is deserving of his reputation.

He just happens to be the author of an exceptionally well-written tutorial on high-key. It’s the method that I use. So – check it out – practice and get off the list of people we’ll just leave alone about the bedsheets, okay?

ZACK ARIAS HIGH KEY TUTORIAL

Please note that there are 5 parts to this tutorial.

Read through them all and follow them step by step. The secret ingredient in this tutorial is the use of the cutters/flags. THIS ALONE will make a marked improvement in your high hey lighting if you feel you already have a handle on it – so pick that up as an extra technique – it really controls the light flying around in front of the client that is overspill from the background.

You’re welcome.