Low key lighting

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Low key photography is when you take a photo of a subject, and everything (or almost everything) except the subject in black. This can be achieved fairly easily and in brightly lit situations; it's just all about having the right settings on your camera. It's a cool technique which is useful for focusing the viewers attention onto a certain part of the photo, which is usually the subject. Here's how it's done.

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Shape is an eery black & white portrait series by French photographer Quentin Arnaud, who used low-key lighting to highlight the shape of his subject's heads while obscuring any definitive facial features. See samples in the full post and let us know what you think.

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