Soft light is neither a compliment nor an insult. It is a type of lighting that Suicide Girls as a website tend to prefer. Simply, it's the most flattering and it tends to be more... Soft.... It's hard to explain... But hard light is the equal and opposite... Imagine a sunny day. You see the edge of shadows with sharp lines. White whites. Black blacks. Lots of shadows and it tends to be much more moody. Soft light has few shadows, and fuzzy edges and hugs the curves of the human body. That's what makes it flattering. Does that make sense?
How do you get each lighting style? You get hard light with 1 really small light source, and far away. Nothing beats direct sunlight on a sunny day because the sun is super bright and really far away, so in perspective, it's tiny. Or one light bulb in a room... Not always the most flattering. Soft light is the opposite. On a cloudy day, the clouds disperse the light across the entire sky so it's nice and soft. Fuzzy shadow edges. Indoors, you can use window light, so it acts as a barrier to soften the light of the sun, or use a big box to make the light source bigger than just a light bulb. It's called a softbox. You can also use an umbrella, as they spread light everywere, but you have less control over the direction od the light than a softbox... It literall just goes everywhere, so it ends up being a soft light source.... I could talk alllllllll day about lighting and why things are called what they are called and how you do it. Hahahaha 😛
@kezia thank you so much for that! I personally prefer the whole 'soft light' way...@coolicio There is so much I want to know about your experiences on this site. Your first set on here is one in which you are posing with a plush unicorn and in every picture, the background is black. How was that done? Also, what are your views on how the sets have changed in style/attitude/camera technology, today vs ten years ago?
