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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Achieving a certain photography style (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Ornery-Toe-4815@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hello! Maybe someone who has some experience with photography could help me out? I'm trying to achieve this look https://imgur.com/a/zIm4z0P , specifically im looking for camera, lighting and environment tips.

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[–] csl512@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

https://www.flashpointlighting.com/blog/reverse-engineer-lighting/ https://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/04/reverse-engineering-other-shooters.html

https://youtu.be/mrsTCvLhgZE

Among many results for "reverse engineer photo"

https://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101-balancing-flash-and.html https://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101balancing-flash-with.html found by Google searching "balance ambient light"

For photo 1, note the relatively sharp shadow pretty close to the flowers. Sharp shadow means small light source. You can simulate this by using a flashlight near your eye.

Photos 2 and 3 notice how much brighter the objects closer to the camera are and how fast stuff further away goes to black. Here's a video about light falloff, found by searching "light falloff": https://youtu.be/x1kmUvxmTVw