Talk:High key

This page should not redirect to High Key Lighting

This SHOULD NOT redirect to "high key lighting", which is a related but different concept. You can read more about this with background research including source citations at http://photo.stackexchange.com/a/10300/1943. I'm not really interested in writing a Wikipedia article on this (although feel free to draw from the Stack Exchange one -- it's CC-BY-SA), but it's crazy to redirect unrelated things together just because you don't know the difference. That's not a matter of "notability".

One such reference:

HIGH KEY Describes an image composed of mainly light tones. Although exposure and lighting influence the effect, an inherently light-toned subject is almost essential. High-key photographs usually have pure or nearly pure white backgrounds. [...] The high-key effect requires tonal gradation or shadows for modeling, but precludes extremely dark shadows. (Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, edited by Leslie Stroebel and Richard D. Zakia, Focal Press, 1993)

This doesn't argue that the two concepts are different, but that's because THAT is the default. You don't expect to find an explanation that "West" does not mean the same thing as "Left" in a dictionary either.

Now, if you think there should just be one article covering both concepts and explaining the difference (which is significant in terms of effect and usage), that seems fine. I don't care. But it should be under "high key" rather than under "high key lighting", if anything.

Matthew Miller (talk) 19:40, 14 December 2011 (UTC)