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Ambient Light refers to light that is present all around us.  Ambient light can come from the sun, overhead lights, lamps etc and can be re-directed using reflectors. 

Image 1 below - Sun camera right, gold reflector camera left F5 1/60 ISO 500.  Reflector casted a warm glow on the model.

Image 2 below - Same camera settings but with a white reflector.

Image 3 below - F4 S/S 400 ISO 500

Image 4 below - F11 S/S 1/6 ISO 160.  My manual camera settings were all wrong and unfortunately the low S/S caused the image to be very blurry.  This could of been a great candid shot.  The background foliage is bright and vibrant and its a nice side angle and smile but the S/S is far to low for me to hand-hold.

Image 5 below - Camera settings changed to S/S 1/80 ISO 500 but now the smile has gone! 

Image 6 - F4.8 S/S 125 ISO 160 - Really like the sky especially as it darkens as it goes up in the image.  I also like the curve of the path with the straight lines of the gate.

Image 7 below - F5.3 S/S 1/100 ISO 160. 

Image 8 below - F5.6 S/S 1250 ISO 500 

Image 9 below - F5.3 1/40 ISO 500.  There was a florescent tube light above models head which casted an orange glow.  I picked this picture because there is great reflection of the window light in the glass wall.

Image 10 and 11 below - F5.6 1/125 ISO 200 model has back light from the sun.

This was my favourite photo from todays lesson.  Both coloured gels were set to F8 but with the red more closer to the subject.  The 45 degree angle of the lights somehow managed to create two shadows either side and I love the pose of the model.

I wanted to use a spill kill to experiment with shadows of the model on the back white wall.  This was to large of a light source and did not give me a defined shadow edge.  Image 1 to 5 with metering from F8, F13 and F22.  Image 6 was changed to a snoot with power of F5.6, which gave great definition of the subjects shadow. 

In todays lesson we got to experiment with coloured gels, red and green.

Images 7 & 8 were red key light F8

Images 9 & 10 were F8 fill light green and red key light F11

I wanted to experiment with a 2 light set-up and used 2 soft boxes either side of my model, using F22 as I wanted my image in full focus.

Image 1 - Test shot 1 light F22 1/60 camera right

Image 2 - 1 light F22 1/60 camera right 

Image 3 - 1 light F22 1/60 camera right

Image 4 - 1 light F22 1/60 camera right

Image 5 - 1 light F22 1 /60 Added 2nd fill light camera left F11 

Image 6 - 1 light F22 Fill F11

Image 7 - 1 light F22 Fill F8

Image 8 - 1 light F22 Fill F8

No bright catchlights in models eyes but using 2 lights and adding soft shadows made the model appear less flat.

For next weeks lesson I want to use light to sculpt the model more and add an interesting background, perhaps injecting a bit of colour into the light source.

Jill Greenberg - This lighting set up is great and I think possibly would involve 4plus lights.  Hairlight, backlight for the wall and 2 either side of camera and maybe one over the top? Hopefully during this lighting course I can learn to achieve this!

Gregory Crewdson - After researching Gregory Crewdson I can not guess how many lights he must have to use to create he’s large scale staged photos.  Im guessing lots! I could not say what the key light is for the above photo.

I decided to experiment with a one light set up and picked the snoot for narrow directed light, as I wanted to portray my modal as serious and moody and the snoot allowed me position the light (all kept camera right at various heights) so not all the face was exposed - ooohh scary!!

Image 1 - F8 1/60  

Image 2 - F8 1/60

Image 3 - F11 1/60

Image 4 - F11 1/60

Image 5 - F16 1/60

Image 6 - F16 1/60

Image 7 - F16 1/60

Although not perfect, Image 6 is my favourite.  I think I should have introduced a second light/refelctor to slightly expose the hands better.

What great portraits! Martin Schoeller has captured a head shot, that with a tight crop, the whole face covers the entire image and exposes all of the celebrities pores & wrinkles.  When I look at them I feel its like they are standing in front of me! Lighting Guess - With minimum depth of field and perhaps two lights directly in front of the subject I think its flat lighting that works great.  The catchlights in the eyes reminds me of aliens!  

Nadav Kander - Jodie Williams Olympian Athlete

I admire the lighting in this photo.  There is not much information as shadow dominates the image but I think its a strong image which portrays tension and emotion.  My lighting guess is perhaps a four light set-up.  Hair light, small softboxes either side of camera to light the shoulder lines and perhaps a small light for the chest area.